TODAY IN HISTORY
1616: English poet and
dramatist William Shakespeare, 52, dies on what
has been traditionally regarded as the anniversary
of his birth in 1564.

The Franklin House
1789: President-elect
George Washington
moves into the first executive mansion, the Franklin
House, in New York.
1896: The Vitascope system for projecting movies
onto a screen is publicly
demonstrated in New York
City.
1940: About 200 people
die in the Rhythm Night
Club Fire in Natchez.
1961: Judy Garland performs her legendary concert at New York’s Carnegie
Hall.
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy. (The
sentence was later reduced
to life imprisonment.)

JACKSON — Mississippi’s
legislative redistricting battle
moved from the statehouse
to the courthouse Friday as
attorneys on all sides of the
complex issue made arguments before a panel of three
federal judges on what political lines to use in coming

elections.
The judges listened without giving a clue to what
they’ll decide, or when. Time
is tight because candidates
face a June 1 qualifying deadline for this year’s legislative
contests.
Attorneys argued for and
against several options.
Attorney General Jim Hood
said that for this year’s elec-

tion, Mississippi should use
House and Senate maps that
were debated — but died —
during the recently ended
legislative session.
Mississippi’s 122 state
House districts and 52 state
Senate districts are redrawn
every 10 years to reflect population changes.
Hood, a Democrat, said the
2011 election would be for a

Stations of the Cross
Mary Lou Lee,
right, Joe Gerache, middle,
and Mittie
Warren recite the
Stations of the
Cross at St. Paul
Catholic Church
on Good Friday.
The Stations of
the Cross follows
the 14 stages of
Christ’s suffering
before his death,
and is intended
to help the
faithful meditate
on Christ’s death
during the Easter
season.

tricting efforts faltered 20
years ago, Mississippi had its
regularly scheduled legislative election in 1991 using
outdated districts following
the previous year’s Census.
Under an order from federal
judges, lawmakers drew new
districts in early 1992 and
new elections were held that
See Maps, Page A7.

NEW ORLEANS — Flaws
in Transocean Ltd.’s emergency training and equipment and a poor safety
culture contributed to the
deadly Deepwater Horizon
drilling rig explosion that led
to the Gulf oil spill, according to a Coast Guard report
released Friday.
The report centered on
Transocean’s role in the
disaster because it owned
the rig and was primarily
responsible for ensuring its
safety, the Coast Guard said.
BP PLC owned the well that
blew out.
The Coast Guard report
also concluded that decisions
made by workers aboard the
rig “may have affected the
explosions or their impact,”
such as failing to follow procedures for notifying other
crew members about the
emergency after the blast.
The report doesn’t explore
the root causes of the well
blowout, which triggered
the explosions that killed 11
workers and sent millions of
gallons of oil spewing into
the Gulf of Mexico. But the
Coast Guard said numerous
actions by Transocean and
the rig’s crew affected their
ability to prevent or limit the
disaster.
Electrical equipment that
may have ignited the explosion was poorly maintained,
while gas alarms and autoSee Oil, Page A7.

four-year term, then lawmakers in 2012 could draw new
districts for the 2015 and 2019
elections.
“The people of the state of
Mississippi want to have fair
elections,” Hood said.
Citing the struggling economy, Hood also said people
only want to have one legislative election during a
four-year term. When redis-

Former E-911 dispatcher sentenced
to 27 years on molestation charges
By Pamela Hitchins
phitchins@vicksburgpost.com
A Warren County man
was sentenced Friday to
serve day-for-day 27 years in
prison for his conviction on
charges he molested a child
and enticed a child to meet
for sexual purposes.
Glen Westbrook, 56, 3011
Washington St., a former
E-911 dispatcher, had been
found guilty by a Warren
County jury April 6. Jurors
returned the guilty verdicts
following about two hours of
deliberation.
The sentence was handed
down in Warren County
Circuit Court by Judge M.
James Chaney.
Chaney ordered Westbrook
to the 27 years, followed by

eight years of probation, and
a $55,000 fine, said Assistant District Attorney Dewey
Arthur, who represented the
state in the prosecution.
The sentence must be
served day-for-day with no
possibility of parole or early
release because the conviction is for sex crimes, Arthur
said.
Westbrook originally was
indicted by a grand jury on
the charges in October 2005.
He pleaded guilty in January
2006 and was sentenced to 15
years in prison, Arthur said.
He later filed an appeal,
charging that his original indictment was “fatally
flawed” because the enticement indictment left out the
words “to meet.”
Former Circuit Court Judge

Frank Vollor granted the
appeal and overturned the
conviction in 2009. District
Attorney Ricky Smith, who
took office in January 2008,
did not oppose the ruling but
presented the evidence to
another grand jury for a new
indictment.
“He would have been about
halfway through his original sentence if he hadn’t
appealed,” Arthur said.
The victim, who was
between 14 and 16 when the
molestation and enticement
occurred, testified, as did
family members, police and
911 officials, Smith said.
Westbrook did not testify.
He was defended by Olive
Branch attorney Linton
Kilpatrick.

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Lance Rowe of Cross Country 4 Jesus carries a cross on North
Frontage Road on Good Friday. For more than a decade,

Bond set for teens facing burglary-related charges
Bond was set at $25,000 in
justice court for each of four
Warren County men facing
various charges related to a
home burglary Tuesday in
the 200 block of Belva Drive.
Cody Whitehead, 17, 4602
Halls Ferry Road; Chase
Youmans, 19, 4816 Gibson
Road; and Joshua Presson,
19, 125 Timberlane Drive,
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stop Wednesday and charged
with receiving stolen property and conspiracy to
commit burglary. Ruben Williams, 18, 4909 Gibson Road,
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crime

from staff reports
charges in the burglary.
Items recovered were
two handguns, jewelry and
cigarettes.
The men were in jail on
Friday night.

Bond denied for man
charged with rape
A Warren County man
charged with forcible rape
and sexual battery on the
same child was ordered held
without bond during his initial court hearing Friday.

Askew T. Frazier, 25, 55
Redhawk Road, appeared
before Justice Court Judge
Jeff Crevitt Friday and was
ordered held on the charges
filed Thursday.
He is accused of a sexual
assault in December and
forcible rape on April 2 of a
child younger than 16, the
same child, Warren County
Sheriff Martin Pace said.
Both incidents occurred in
Warren County, the sheriff
said.
Frazier will be held until
his case is presented a grand
jury.
The next grand jury meets

in May.

City man out of jail
following arrest
A Vicksburg man was
released from the Warren
County Jail Friday after
being held on a felony warrant for eluding law enforcement officials.
Robert Williams, 22, 1430
Maxwell St., was arrested
at 6:05 p.m. Thursday, jail
records showed.
Records showed he was
released on a post-release
supervision.

Jury finds Arkansas police officers not liable in child’s death
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) —
A federal jury decided Friday
that two West Memphis police
officers cannot be held liable
for the death of a 12-year-old
boy, whose family filed a $250
million lawsuit after he was
fatally shot by police.
Officers Erik Sammis and

Jimmy Evans shed tears as
the verdicts were read in U.S.
District Court in Jonesboro.
Jurors in the civil trial, which
began Monday, ruled in favor
of the officers on all 10 claims
made by the family after three
hours of deliberations.
Sammis said he believed

DeAunta Farrow was holding a gun when he and Evans,
who were conducting nighttime surveillance, came upon
the boy and his then-14-yearold cousin, Unseld Nance Jr.,
in a dimly lit parking lot in
June 2007. Investigators later
said DeAunta was holding a

toy gun.
A special prosecutor concluded there wasn’t enough
evidence to charge the officers
with a crime.
But DeAunta’s family said
the boy was not armed and
filed the lawsuit against the
officers, alleging they used

Two sentenced in Warren County Circuit Court
In Warren County Circuit
Court for the week ending
Friday:
• Marvel Hunter, 19, 1840
Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd, pleaded guilty to burglary of a dwelling and two
counts of statutory rape of
a child under the age of 14
and was sentenced by Cir-

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the Vicksburg resident has been walking across the United
States preaching the gospel.

Warren and Issaquena counties, their sheriffs, boards of
supervisors and others have
been named in a civil lawsuit
filed by a Vicksburg man who
says he was held in jail for
eight months without having
an initial court appearance.
Dustin Lawrence, age and
address unavailable, filed the
$7.5 million lawsuit in federal
court April 11 at the U.S. District Court’s Southern office
in Jackson.
According to the suit, Lawrence was arrested by Warren
County Sheriff Martin Pace
and Deputy Mike Traxler on
grand larceny charges July
29, 2009.
Lawrence claims he was initially booked into the Warren
County Jail but was later
transferred to the Issaquena
County Correctional Facility,
where he was held for 260 days
before finally being released
by Judge M. James Chaney.
Lawrence alleges he never
saw a judge for an initial
appearance.
Pace said commenting on
the specifics of a case in which
a lawsuit has been filed would
be inappropriate.
“In general, when someone is arrested on a felony
charge, and had bond set, if
they have another detainer
placed on them by the Justice Court, such as for unpaid
fines, they would be transported to Issaquena County
and housed there until bond
has been posted and the fines
paid,” Pace said.
State court rules mandate
that anyone charged with a
crime be taken before a judge
within 48 hours.
Warren County officials
declined to comment.
Records show Lawrence was
released from the Issaquena
County Jail on April 14, 2010.
Lawrence claims his case
was reviewed by a Warren
County grand jury and he
was not indicted, but according to grand jury reports
issued since his arrest, his
name does not appear on the
lists of defendants that were
no-billed.

court report
from court records

cuit Judge Isadore Patrick
to complete the Mississippi
Department of Corrections
Regimented Inmate Discipline Program, followed
by one year in the Intensive Supervision Program

(house arrest) and five
years of probation, plus a
$1,000 fine and $322.50 in
costs. Hunter was arrested
Sept. 25, 2009, and March
24, 2010.
• Christopher Carlton Strawbridge, 30, 70 Upland Drive,
was found guilty of violating probation and sen-

tenced by Patrick to the
Mississippi Department
of Corrections restitution center at Hinds, Jackson or Leflore counties to
pay $2,707.50 in past-due
fines, fees and restitution.
Strawbridge was arrested
March 27, 2009, for uttering
a forgery.

excessive force and violated
the children’s civil rights.
The officers tried to have the
lawsuit thrown out, but the
U.S. Supreme Court declined
to hear their appeal last
October.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

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Jindal seeks ’fund sweep’ for budget Crews battle West Texas blaze out of canyon
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) —
To balance next year’s budget,
the Jindal administration is
proposing to raid dozens of
government set-aside funds,
scraping together $231 million from pots of money targeted for motorcycle safety
programs, artificial reef construction, economic development, housing, insurance payments and reptile research.
Fund sweeps aren’t new, but
the dollars being taken from
some pots of money are more
sizable in the proposal for the
upcoming 2011-12 fiscal year
that begins July 1.
The dollars slated to be
poached range from just $3 in
a fund for school accountability rewards to $60 million from
a fund that holds premiums
charged to state agencies for
insurance coverage.
More than $37,000 would be
scooped out of a Formosan
termite-fighting fund, $1,441

would be taken from a reptile
research fund, $3,069 would
be swept out of a railroad
crossing safety fund, nearly
$305,000 would come from a
New Orleans beautification
fund and more than $1 million
would be shifted from a rehabilitation fund for the visually
impaired.
A pot of money set aside to
build artificial reefs that help
attract marine life, create fishing spots and aid in coastal
restoration efforts would be
nearly drained after $27 million is removed, and $20 million set aside for housing
development would instead be
used for other state programs
and services. More than $37
million in an economic development fund, a state subsidy
repaid by Northrop Grumman
Ship Systems because it didn’t
meet its employment obligations for getting the cash, also
would be taken.

Gov. Bobby Jindal wants to
shift the money into an “Overcollections Fund” and then
spread it across agencies in
next year’s budget to patch
holes, fill deficits and help
offset a $1.6 billion shortfall.
Lawmakers say they are just
starting to comb through the
proposal to determine if they
have any objections, when it
comes up for debate in the legislative session that begins
Monday.
S e n . Lyd i a Ja c k s o n ,
D-Shreveport, vice chairwoman of the Senate Finance
Committee, called the move a
“budget sleight of hand” that
needs further review.
“It’s creative,” Jackson
said. She added, “It’s a large
amount and the executive
budget is predicated on those
fund sweeps, so you’d kind of
like to know where they are.”

Historical marker to honor Miss. WWI hero
FALKNER, Miss. — A
historical marker will be
dedicated today in Falkner
to World War I veteran
Orvil Lucian Cotten for his
heroism.
The marker will be presented to Falkner and Tippah
County by Cotten’s daughter
Norma C. Leadford.
Cotten was born near
Falkner in 1896 and died
in Memphis in 1992. He is
buried in the Cotten Cemetery, east of Falkner.
In World War I, Cotten was
a Signal Corps telephone
lineman in northern France.
His job was to prepare telephone lines on the battlefield.
Records show Cotton distinguished himself during
the Battle of St. Quentin
Canal, Bellincort in northern France. On Sept. 27, 1918,
after the Allied 30th Division
was gassed by the Germans,
Cotten, although injured in
the gas attack, and working under constant shellfire, refused to be evacuated,

the south

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
and kept phone lines open
between the 115th and 117th
Allied Regiments.
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the
British Military Medal and
the French Croix de Guerre.

AG: Personal e-mails
by officials exempt
BATON ROUGE, La. —
Personal e-mails written
by government officials on
government computers are
exempt from public disclosure, Louisiana Attorney
General Buddy Caldwell
ruled.
His legal opinions do not
carry the force of law, but are
generally followed unless a
court rules otherwise.
This one was requested by
Robert Barham, secretary of
the Louisiana Department of
Wildlife and Fisheries.
Caldwell said the state

FORT DAVIS, Texas (AP)
— West Texas firefighters are
trying new tactics to stop a
202,000-acre wildfire since it
raced out of a canyon.
Fire crews in Jeff Davis
County will start a controlled
burn near some roads to
destroy parched grass and
shrubs in a 70,000-acre area.
Then there won’t be anything left to burn — and the
wildfire should be under control when it reaches the roads
in a few days.
C.J. Norvell, a spokeswoman
for a team of federal firefighters and officials helping in
West Texas, says the fire is not
headed toward any towns.
The blaze started nearly
two weeks ago and destroyed
about 40 homes in the Fort
Davis area before moving
north.
Wildfires have scorched
more than 1 million acres in
Texas the past two weeks.
Texas Governor Rick Perry

A boat trailer and burned
trees are all that are left in
this field at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas.
said the dangerous plumes
of more than 8,000 wildfires
are engulfing land and lives
— and it is time for Texans to
join together in prayer. He has
declared the next three days

We invite you to
Good Friday service!

public records law does not
cover “e-mails of a purely
personal nature” that have
“no relation to any function
of a public office.”

12 accused of selling
crack near La. school
VINTON, La. — Vinton
Police Chief Ricky Fox said a
10-month investigation using
surveillance equipment
led to arrest warrants for a
dozen people accused of selling crack cocaine at an apartment complex near Vinton
Middle School.
Fox said the community
is so small that they had to
use surveillance equipment,
because small-town dealers
generally sell only to people
they know. He said eventually, the investigators were
able to find someone the
alleged dealers were comfortable with.
Eight suspects have been
arrested.

as “Days of Prayer for Rain”
in Texas.
Perry made the proclamation on his website, stating: “I
urge Texans of all faiths and
traditions to offer prayers on
that day for the healing of our
land, the rebuilding of our
communities and the restoration of our normal way of
life.”
Several public pages have
popped up on Facebook over
the past few days. One event
named “Pray for RAIN in
Texas!” has 306 participants
so far who plan on praying for
precipitation.
The page’s wall drew several comments, not only from
people in cities across the state
of Texas, but also New Jersey,
the Caribbean, and Morocco.
One person posted, “Lord,
please send us rain to quench
the land, relive our firefighters, and help our ranchers and
farmers. You are great O’ Lord
and you hear our cries.”

Lobbying
Wrong for state universities
From other Mississippi newspapers:
•
The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson:
State Sen. David Baria said the idea of
state universities spending money on
lobbyists to lobby the Legislature “just
rubs me the wrong way.”
It should and it does. When universities are having to cut and scrimp to deal
with state budget cuts and are raising
tuition on students, spending money on
lobbyists should be a very low priority
— as in no priority at all.
Institutions of higher learning in Mississippi spent $346,000 on lobbying the
Legislature last year. The University of

Southern Mississippi was top lobbyist
with $116,750, followed by Mississippi
State at $102.908 and Jackson State at
$58,596. The University of Mississippi
spent $40,269; University of Mississippi
Medical Center, $20,385; Delta State
$5,613; and Alcorn State, $2,000. Mississippi Valley State University should
be commended. It had no lobbyist
expenditure.
To be clear, no appropriated funds
or tuition money was used to lobby.
That is because lawmakers pitched a
fit about it in 2008 after it was revealed
that Delta State and Mississippi State
spent almost $350,000 on contract lobby-

ists. University officials promised not to
use state funds for lobbying. They now
use foundation funds, which contributors might want to question.
This is no criticism of the lobbyists.
Lobbyists do their jobs well representing the interests of clients. Private business groups hire them for good reason.
However, the idea of a government
entity having to lobby the government
itself does rub the wrong way.
Universities need more state funding.
They also need to manage all resources
more wisely. Paying for lobbyists rubs
taxpayers and supporters the wrong
way.

The lost art of letter writing
The Commercial Dispatch,
Columbus:
Many of us have them, tucked away in
a box or closet: Letters that have been
passed down through the generations.
Letters, like other family heirlooms,
are a tangible, visceral connection to
the past. Their absence is a hole in our
history.
Clearly, letters are more personal
than most other heirlooms. They bring
the very words of our past friends and
relatives into the present with us.
Think of how empty history would
be without personal letters. Without
his letter to wife Martha, we wouldn’t
know George Washington’s personal
misgivings about being given command

of the Continental Army: “I assure you
... I have used every endeavor in my
power to avoid it.” We wouldn’t have
Abraham Lincoln’s congratulation
letter to Ulysses S. Grant upon taking
Vicksburg — and Lincoln’s admission
that he thought Grant might fail: “I now
wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was
wrong.”
Technology has nearly eradicated
the art of letter-writing. Now, we send
e-mails, or worse, text messages. We
give less thought to what we’re saying
— grammar, and even capitalization,
have fallen by the wayside.
We say in three letters what used to
be said in three sentences, or three

paragraphs. If cell phones existed in
Napoleon’s day, would he have texted “i
luv u” to Josephine instead of writing
one of his immortal love letters?
April is National Letter Writing
Month. These types of designations
come and go, but we urge our readers
to observe this one. The month is timed
in advance of Mother’s Day. Write a
letter to your mother; she’ll treasure it.
Become reacquainted with the joy, and
the thought, that goes along with putting pen to paper.
Write a letter to someone this month.
It’ll be treasured by the recipient today.
And, who knows? It may last in your
family for generations to come.

Barbour uses double-speak on Medicaid
The Greenwood Commonwealth:
It’s become fairly accepted wisdom —
except by those who are in deep budgetary denial — that in order for the
U.S. government to get a handle on its
debt, it will have to rein in the three
exploding entitlements — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Haley Barbour, in trying as a likely
presidential contender to establish his
bona fides to tackle this job, has been
talking up his efforts in Mississippi
to trim the Medicaid rolls. Speaking
in Washington and in the early primary state of New Hampshire, Barbour
claimed that his administration was
able to reduce the number of Medicaid
recipients by almost 23 percent during
his first couple of years as governor.
What Barbour failed to mention, how-

ever, was that in 2006, midway through
his first term, the state changed the
way it counted enrollees in the federalstate health insurance program. Whatever reduction occurred was mostly the
result of an accounting change, not a
true drop in beneficiaries.
The Associated Press, in some nifty
reporting, called Barbour’s hand on this
misleading manipulation of the numbers. It did its own number-crunching,
using the figures coming from Barbour’s own administration. It found
that, depending on which accounting
method you use, Mississippi’s Medicaid
rolls are at best down slightly during
Barbour’s tenure.
The AP’s fact-checking, while it makes
Barbour look disingenuous, does not
come without some benefit for the gov-

ernor. His most controversial reform
for Medicaid — requiring face-to-face
re-enrollments — has been criticized by
his opponents as heartless. They have
claimed that the inconvenience for the
poor of getting themselves or their children to the Medicaid office has pushed
qualified recipients off the rolls. Apparently, face-to-face re-enrollments must
not be that onerous or the numbers
would not be so high.
Barbour has to use his track record
as Mississippi’s governor in making his
pitch to the nation at large. His generally commendable performance as this
state’s chief executive will be an important gauge for primary voters if he does
become a White House aspirant. He
just should tell the story straight.

OLD POST FILES
120 YEARS AGO: 1891
The diocesan council convenes here
next week. • A. Bloomensteil returns
from Galveston where he saw President
Harrison.

MODERATELY CONFUSED
by Bill Stahler

50 YEARS AGO: 1961
Robert F. Cornell dies. • Mrs. Charles Crook
is a patient at the Vicksburg Hospital. •
Bradford Dillman stars in “Circle of Deception” at the Strand Theatre.

110 YEARS AGO: 1901

40 YEARS AGO: 1971

J. Laudenheimer and daughter spend the
day in Port Gibson.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Geary announce the
birth of a daughter, Eleanor, on April 12.
• “Spoon River Anthology” opens at the
Vicksburg Little Theatre Playhouse.

100 YEARS AGO: 1911
Vicksburg defeats Meridian, 9-3.

30 YEARS AGO: 1981

90 YEARS AGO: 1921

Mr. and Mrs. William Kyle Clary Sr.
announce the birth of a son, Robert Arlyn,
born April 24. • James Hannah displays a
34-pound, 36-inch catfish he caught on a
trotline at Steele Bayou. • William B. Jackson dies.

Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Benard, former residents, are here from New Orleans. • Mrs.
Mike Heckler undergoes surgery for
appendicitis.

80 YEARS AGO: 1931

20 YEARS AGO: 1991

Mrs. Pearl Belle Wallace of Bogue Chitto
and Harold Haver are married. • Mrs. Ella
Tyson of Camden, Ark., is in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Tyson.

70 YEARS AGO: 1941

60 YEARS AGO: 1951

Dr. Swan Haworth is guest speaker at the
weekly meeting of the Kiwanis Club. • Postmaster Charles Crook arranges a program
in front of the post office in connection with
the defense bond programs. • The Vicksburg Garden Club’s annual spring flower
show is held at the Kirk House of the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilcoxon of Hazlehurst are spending the day in Vicksburg. •
A picture shows Jimmy Aden, a Clarksdale
High School football star, being taken by
stretcher on board an Air Force C-47 here
for transferring to the National Polio Foundation’s Respiratory Center at Houston,
Texas.

Rich Awtrey and Nancy Riddle, seniors at
St. Aloysius, are named Students of the
Month by the Elks. • David Blackburn and
Christy Berry win the Optimist speech
contest.

10 YEARS AGO: 2001
Holliday’s Fashions opens at Pemberton
Square mall. • Elizabeth Wooten, 4, wins
first place in her division, Lead Line, in
walking horse competition. • Brian Chewning is named a project manager with the
Vicksburg District.

I still believe JR Ewing was one of the
funniest antiheroes
ever to appear on the
boob tube, and Sue
Ellen Ewing the most
appealingly vulnerable beauty.

Late to the party
with JR, mad men
and unhappy women
I’ve always been tardy to television.
When the rest of the world was wondering “Who shot JR?,” I was wondering,
“Who is JR?”
I never watched a single season of
“Dallas” until it had been off prime time
for four or five years. Then, when reruns
appeared on a daily basis on a cable
channel and I didn’t have to wait a week
between melodramas, I got the “Dallas”
habit. In a scary way. I still believe JR
Ewing was one of the funniest antiheroes ever to appear on the boob tube,
and Sue Ellen Ewing the most appealingly vulnerable beauty.
Same drill with “The Sopranos.” Not
until the Arts and Entertainment Channel began showing
Tony and his family
on a daily basis did I
get hit by the mob. It
was an unlikely seduction, really, since I
normally don’t like
gangster shows, not
even “The Godfather”
movies, which critics
RHETA
heralded.
gRIMSLEY
But the fine writing
impressed me, and
pretty soon I was rolling with inappropriate laughter as Tony
Soprano’s kith and kin discussed giving
rival mobsters “moon roofs” in their
heads with guns and pick axes or whatever sundry weapon was available.
It was unseemly how funny I found
that violent and profane show. The brilliance was in how close to sympathetic
the writers let some of the unsavory
characters get — reallllly close — before
reminding viewers with an unspeakable
criminal act just whom you were dealing with.
For my money, only one character out
of a cast of hundreds was truly moral
or sympathetic, and that was Artie,
the restaurateur. His choice in friends
was shaky, but he kept himself busy in
the kitchen and avoided the greed and
meanness surrounding him.
Now I’m busy trying to catch up with
the “Mad Men” craze. The first season,
2007, I heard lots of talk about the show,
but, once again, it didn’t sound like my
cup of tea. I’ve never been that interested in Manhattan or in the advertising
business.
But a long essay in The New York
Review of Books earlier this year suckered me into trying it. There’s irony in
the fact that the review didn’t like “Mad
Men,” saying the acting was bad and the
writing banal: “In its glossy, semaphoric
style, its tendency to invoke rather than
unravel this or that issue, the way it uses
a certain visual allure to blind rather
than to enlighten, ‘Mad Men’ is much
like a successful advertisement itself.”
Not a ringing endorsement.
And there are plenty of broad strokes
in this period painting of the 1960s. The
women are used in every possible way
by their colleagues, husbands, bosses
and neighbors. A divorcee is suspect
because she walks for pleasure and
works out of necessity. The housewives
are all bored, smoking chimneys. Mothers-to-be drink and smoke. Working
women are husband-hungry hussies.
The men are all chauvinist pigs who
drink before noon, lead secret lives,
pinch secretaries’ bottoms and stab one
another in the back. Office parties are
orgies.
Writing and acting are marginal. Yet
stereotypes usually have some basis in
truth. Today’s career women who don’t
consider themselves feminists should
watch an episode or two and reconsider.
I’ll get back to you in a couple or three
years on “Glee.”

JOHNSON

•
Rheta Grimsley Johnson writes for King Features
Syndicate.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Birtherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; claims force GOP leaders to take a stand Iowa activists not sold
WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
the conspiracy theory that
wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go away. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forcing Republican officials and
presidential contenders to
pick sides: Do they think President Barack Obama was born
outside the United States and
disqualified to be president?
As the Republican candidates tiptoe through the mine
field, Democrats are watching. They hope the debate will
fire up their liberal base and
perhaps tie the eventual GOP
nominee to fringe beliefs that
swing voters will reject.
In recent days several prominent Republicans have distanced themselves, with varying degrees of emphasis, from
the false claim that Obama was
born in a foreign country. But
with a new poll showing that
two-thirds of adult Republicans either embrace the claim
or are open to it, nearly all
these GOP leaders are not
calling for a broader effort to
stamp out the allegations.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real challenge for the
Republican Party and virtually
every Republican candidate
for president,â&#x20AC;? contends Democratic pollster Geoff Garin. If
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not handled well, he said,
all-important independent
voters might see Republicans
as extreme or irrelevant.
Many Americans consider
claims of Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foreign
birth to be preposterous,
unworthy of serious debate.
Yet the â&#x20AC;&#x153;birtherâ&#x20AC;? issue threatens to overshadow the early
stages of the GOP effort to
choose a presidential nominee for 2012. Real estate mogul
Donald Trump has stirred the
pot lately, repeatedly saying

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President Barack Obama salutes as he steps off Marine
One.
Obama should provide his
original birth certificate.
From a political standpoint,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to dismiss the
matter as conspiratorial fantasy, akin to, say, claims that
the 1969 moon landing was
staged. In the latest New York
Times-CBS News poll, 45 percent of adult Republicans said
they believe Obama was born
in another country, and 22
percent said they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know.
One-third of Republicans said
they believe the president is
native born.
The same poll a year ago
found considerably less suspicion among Republicans. A
plurality of GOP adults then
said Obama was U.S.-born, and
32 percent said they believed
he was foreign-born.
In the latest poll, about half of
all independents said Obama

was born in the United States.
The other independents were
about evenly split between
those saying he is foreignborn, and those saying they
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know.
Ten percent of Democrats
said Obama was born overseas, and 9 percent were
unsure.
Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certificate of live
birth indicates he was born
in Hawaii in 1961. Newspaper
birth announcements at the
time reported the birth.
The Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top Republicans
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Speaker John Boehner and
Majority Leader Eric Cantor
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; say they are satisfied that
Obama was born in Hawaii.
But they have declined to criticize those who state otherwise, and Boehner has said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
not his job to tell Americans
what to think.

First ladyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plane closer to jet than reported
WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Safety
investigators say a plane
carrying first lady Michelle
Obama this week came
closer to a big military cargo
jet than previously reported.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday
that the distance between
the two planes closed to 2.94
miles before air traffic controllers at Andrews Air Force
Base directed the first ladyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
plane to abort a landing.
Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plane, a Boeing
737, was considerably
smaller than the 200-ton
C17. Regulations require
five miles between planes to
avoid dangerous wake turbulence when the plane in the
lead is significantly larger
than the trailing plane.

Blackwater case
gets new life
WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An
appeals court is resurrecting
the case against four Blackwater Worldwide guards
involved in a 2007 shooting in
a Baghdad public square that
killed 17 Iraqi citizens.
A federal trial judge in
Washington, Ricardo Urbina,
threw out the case on New

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve 2009 after he
found the Justice Department mishandled evidence
and violated the guardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; constitutional rights.
But a three-judge panel of
the U.S. Court of Appeals
ruled Friday that Urbina
wrongly interpreted the law.
It ordered that he reconsider whether there was any
tainted evidence against
four of the five defendants â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Army veteran Paul Slough
and former Marines Evan
Liberty, Donald Ball and
Dustin Heard.
The Justice Department
has dismissed charges
against the fifth defendant,
former Army sergeant Nick
Slatten.

Beck: Huckabee too
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;thin-skinnedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Glenn Beck is offering some
unsolicited advice to former
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: Skip the 2012 presidential race if you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take
some political punches.
In an ongoing feud between

the two Fox News Channel hosts, Beck suggested
during his radio show Friday
that Huckabee is too â&#x20AC;&#x153;thin
skinned.â&#x20AC;? He also criticized
the former governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record
on taxes and executive
clemency.

CIA touts â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;eco-friendlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
shredding of secrets
WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The
CIA is touting its version of
eco-shredding on Earth Day,
saying itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s found a way to
make the â&#x20AC;&#x153;burn after readingâ&#x20AC;? process environmentally friendly.
The intelligence agency
says classified papers are
shredded and burned using
an on-site incinerator, which
then generates steam to heat
water at CIA headquarters.
The CIA said the process
reduces landfill waste by
nearly 1,000 tons per year.
And its employees also recycle more than three tons of
plastic, glass, cardboard and
other materials annually.
The agency didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offer
to show reporters how its
secret shredding is done,
however.

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Trump, meanwhile, keeps
fueling the fire. Even though
many people doubt he will run
for president, he has forced
other Republicans to take
stands.
Former Massachusetts Gov.
Mitt Romney and former Sen.
Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania have been the most direct
in rejecting the birthersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
claims. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe the president was born in the United
States,â&#x20AC;? Romney told CNBC.
Santorum has no doubt that
Obama was born in Hawaii,
and he â&#x20AC;&#x153;believes this debate
distracts us from the real
issues,â&#x20AC;? said his spokesman,
Virginia Davis.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour accepts the presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
word about his birthplace, his
staff said.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim
Pawlenty told an Iowa audience, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not one to question
the authenticity of Barack
Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birth certificate.â&#x20AC;? He
added a little jab: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you
look at his policies, I do question what planet heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from.â&#x20AC;?
When ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s George Stephanopoulos showed a copy of
Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birth certificate to
Rep. Michele Bachmann of
Minnesota, who was ambivalent at first, she said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well,
then, that should settle it. ...
I take the president at his
word.â&#x20AC;?

on Trump caucus campaign
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Donald Trump said he would
embrace the rigors of campaigning in Iowa if he decides
to run for president, but Iowa
Republican leaders say they
doubt the celebrity businessman really knows what it takes
to compete in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presidential caucuses and wonder
if he would commit the time
and effort needed.
Although
some state
Republican
Party leaders have welcomed the
attention
Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presidential ideas
Donald
have brought
Trump
to the 2012
race and look forward to a
giant fundraising dinner he
will keynote in June, they also
express skepticism about him
as a candidate that borders on
contempt.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Donaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; will be wherever the cameras are, and
nowhere else,â&#x20AC;? said Doug
Gross, a Des Moines Republican and longtime confidant of
GOP Gov. Terry Branstad.
If he seeks the Republican
nomination, Gross and others
said, Trump would probably
want to bypass the up-close

campaigning and the behindthe-scenes meetings with local
party activists that the Iowa
caucus electorate expects
from serious presidential
contenders.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prepared
at all for what it means to run
in the caucuses in Iowa,â&#x20AC;? said
Sac County Republican Chairwoman Ann Trimble-Ray, a
consultant to Iowa Republican
Rep. Steve King and a leading
party activist in GOP-heavy
western Iowa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
going to shock the socks off
this guy.â&#x20AC;?
Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prospects in Iowa,
which has the first contest
in the race for the 2012 nomination, became the subject
of discussion this week after
he discussed the possibility of running in a televised
interview, and new public surveys showed him among the
most popular hopefuls in the
GOP field. He has also gotten
encouragement from some
veteran strategists.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will meet many people,
maybe all of the peopleâ&#x20AC;? in
Iowa, Trump said.
Trump plans to announce
his intentions sometime
before his June 10 appearance
at the GOP fundraiser in Des
Moines. The Iowa caucuses
are scheduled for Feb. 6.

Back in the driver’s seat
GM poised to retake top spot from Toyota
DETROIT (AP) — General
Motors is almost certain to
claim the title of world’s biggest automaker this year,
retaking the top spot from
Toyota, which has been hurt
by production problems since
the Japanese earthquake and
still can’t escape the shadow
of major safety recalls.
The No. 1 title, a morale
booster for the winner’s
employees and managers,
would cap GM’s remarkable
comeback from bankruptcy.
GM’s sales are up, mainly in
China and the U.S, the world’s
top two markets. Cars are
better than in the past, especially small ones.
But even though GM came
within 30,000 sales of Toyota
last year and began strong
in 2011, any sales victory this
year has more to do with Toyota’s problems.
First, a series of big recalls
has ballooned to 14 million
vehicles worldwide and damaged Toyota’s reputation for
reliability. That has spurred
loyal buyers to look at other
brands.
Second, a March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan
curbed Toyota’s car production. On Friday, Toyota Motor
Corp. said its factories worldwide won’t return to full production until November or
December. That means buyers
across the globe may not be
able to get the models they
want. Already the crisis has
cost the company production
of 260,000 vehicles.
Last year, Toyota sold 8.42
million cars and trucks, barely
ahead of a resurgent GM,
which sold 8.39 million. GM
held the No. 1 spot from 1932
until 2008.

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A 2010 Chevrolet Traverse, left, sits next to a 2010 Equinox at a Chevrolet dealership in
Englewood, Colo.
A look at why GM is almost
a lock to retake the lead this
year:
• General Motors Co. was
dysfunctional three years
ago, hobbled by enormous
debt and a giant bureaucracy. Its quality was suspect, it lost billions, and
it had few products other
than pickups that buyers
found appealing. After
a government bailout, a
leaner GM emerged from
a 2009 bankruptcy with
new vehicles and a focus
on Chevrolet, Buick, GMC
and Cadillac. Since then,
GM has come up with hits
including the Chevrolet
Equinox small SUV, the
Buick LaCrosse luxury
car, and the Chevrolet
Cruze compact. Its quality
is better. Sales so far this
year are up 25 percent in
the U.S. and 10 percent in
China. The efficient Cruze

compact and Chevrolet Volt
car both hit the market as
U.S. gasoline prices started
rising.
• Bad publicity from the
recalls, mainly for cars
that can accelerate without warning, was hurting Toyota long before the
earthquake. The recalls
began late in 2009, and
came just as GM, Ford,
Hyundai, and others introduced more competitive
cars and trucks. With a
bunch of nice alternatives
and doubts about quality,
customers who dutifully
returned to Toyota started
considering other brands.
Many Toyota models look
old and need upgrades.
Despite rebates and lowinterest financing, Toyota
was the only major automaker with lower U.S. sales
last year. Sales are up 12.5
percent so far in 2011, but

only at half the growth of
GM.
• Toyota has nowhere near
GM’s presence in China,
now the world’s largest auto market. Through
March, Toyota sold 208,000
vehicles there, but GM
and its joint ventures sold
more than three times that
number. Growth in China
by itself probably would
have moved GM ahead of
Toyota in worldwide sales.
Toyota’s lead was only
about one day’s worth of
sales for GM.
If GM takes No. 1 this year, it
won’t crow much, says Jesse
Toprak, vice president of
industry trends and insights
for TrueCar.com, an auto price
tracking website.
“It’s because of (factory)
capacity restrictions, and
that’s not something they
want to brag about,” he said.

Treasury investment funds
report $1.7 billion in gains
WASHINGTON — The
Treasury Department says
that an investment program
set up during the financial
crisis to buy toxic assets
from banks is showing a $1.7
billion gain.
The department has committed $22.1 billion in taxpayer funds to the PublicPrivate Investment Program,
which was created in March
2009. That money has been
used to set up funds that
have invested in mortgagebacked securities and other
financial assets. The goal is
to take those assets off the
books of large banks that
were facing huge losses from
bad real estate investments
during the housing bubble.
The department has earned
more than $500 million in dividends and other profits from
the investments, Treasury
says. And Treasury’s share
of the securities held in the
funds has increased in value
by $1.2 billion.

Judge OKs Borders plan
to pay $6M in bonuses
NEW YORK — A lawyer
for bookseller Borders
Group Inc. said a judge has
approved paying executives
up to $6.6 million in bonuses

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
as the company works to
reorganize under bankruptcy court protection.
The Office of the U.S.
Trustee objected to an earlier request to pay about $8
million in bonuses.
Borders said the bonuses
are necessary to retain executives in key posts. Forty
seven executives have left
the company since Borders
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February.

Dollar slides amid
investors’ fears
NEW YORK — The dollar
fell to a 16-month low against
the euro Thursday with
investors expecting the Federal Reserve to keep interest
rates near zero, even as U.S.
companies post better-thanexpected financial performances this quarter.
Higher rates tend to support a currency’s value
because they can generate a
bigger return on investments
denominated in that currency — lower rates make a
currency less appealing. The
Fed has kept its key rate near
zero since December 2008.

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to retire and he knows someone who is
suggesting annuities. It is
scary that
you cannot
touch the
money
once you
sign up for
BRUCE
the annuity. What
is your take on them? — Toni,
via e-mail
A: You mentioned “someone” is suggesting annuities.
I would be very surprised if
that someone is not an insurance salesman. There are
so many annuities available
today. It is difficult to say that
one is against or for. However,
more and more salespeople
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The money may very well
be needed or wanted, there
is obviously a distinction. In
most circumstances, I would
want a great deal of investigation by a neutral party (not the
salesperson before an annuity is considered). There are
situations where the income
can be justified, but move very
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•

Tornado causes injuries, shuts down St. Louis airport
Planes diverted
to other cities
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lambert
Field in St. Louis has been
closed after a tornado tore
through the airport, lifting a
roof off the terminal and injuring several people.
Broadcast reports, citing
airport officials, said most of
the injuries Friday night were
believed to be minor.
Airport officials say the
airport was shut down and
planes were diverted to other
locations.
Crews were assessing
damage at all the terminals.
Plate glass windows were torn
out, largely in Concourse C,
where the most of the damage
appeared to occur.
Television footage showed
pieces of twisted metal outside the terminal.
The tornado was part of a
series of strong storms that
struck central and eastern
Missouri. Unconfirmed tornadoes were reported in several
counties in the St. Louis area.

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Rescue workers walk through storm damage next to a parking garage outside terminal
one at St. Louis International Airport Friday.
Lambert spokesman Jeff Lea
said he did not immediately
have information about how
many people were hurt. He
said the injuries were believed

to be from glass that shattered
as the storm hit the airport.
An Air National Guard facility at the airport was reportedly damaged.

Lea said several cars parked
at the airport were damaged.
He didn’t yet know if any
planes were affected, or if
any flights were delayed or

canceled.
Damage, possibly from a
tornado, was also reported
at several towns near the airport — Maryland Heights,
Bridgeton, St. Ann, Ferguson
and Florissant. Interstate 270
in that area was closed. Trees
and power lines were down.
A tractor-trailer was sitting
on its end.
Unconfirmed tornadoes
were reported near New Melle
and Dardenne Prairie in St.
Charles County. St. Charles
County Sheriff’s Lt. Craig
McGuire said there were early
reports of at least 20 homes
damaged in the county.
“It was pretty wicked,” he
said.
In downtown St. Louis,
Busch Stadium officials hurriedly moved Cardinals fans to
a safe area as tornado sirens
blared. The game with the
Cincinnati Reds was delayed
for hours.
The utility company Ameren
Missouri reported more than
39,000 power outages.

Police using surveillance photos in hunt for Colo. mall bombing suspect
LITTLETON, Colo. —
Authorities investigating a
fire that led to the discovery
of a pipe bomb and propane
tanks in a Colorado mall
released three new surveillance photos Friday of a man
now considered a suspect in
the case.
The new photos of the man
show him riding a public bus
away from Southwest Plaza
Mall on Tuesday evening, the
night before the fire.
Authorities originally considered the man a person

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
of interest in the case, but
Jefferson County sheriff’s
spokesman Mark Techmeyer
said Friday that information from the investigation
led investigators to consider
him a suspect. Techmeyer
wouldn’t elaborate.
The mall is about 2 miles
away from Columbine High
School and within sight of a
memorial to the victims in an
adjoining park. The fire and

the discovery of the explosives came on the 12th anniversary of the shootings that
killed 13 people.

Pastor refuses to pay
$1 peace bond, jailed
DEARBORN, Mich. — A
judge has ordered a Florida
pastor to jail after he refused
to pay a $1 peace bond over a
planned demonstration outside a Michigan mosque.
The protest by Terry Jones

was supposed to occur at 5
p.m. Friday, but was scuttled
by the court proceedings.
A jury on Friday decided
his past actions are evidence the protest outside the
Islamic Center of America
in Dearborn could cause
violence.

Kan. plane crash kills
family on Easter trip
TOPEKA, Kan. — A small
airplane carrying a young

couple and their daughters on their way to visit
friends for Easter crashed in
a muddy Kansas corn field
Friday, killing all four, officials said.
The six-seat Beechcraft
plane registered to Precision Ag & Seed Services
LLC in Scott City went down
about noon roughly 3 miles
northeast of the capital city
of Topeka. It was headed
to Topeka’s Phillip Billard
Airport.

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fall in those districts, with
winners serving the final
three years of the terms.
Michael Wallace, a private attorney representing
the state Republican Party,
argued in court Friday that
there’s no basis for using
maps with political boundaries that never got final
approval from the House and
Senate. Wallace said legislators tried and failed to agree
on redistricting plans.
“Just because they haven’t
reached agreement doesn’t
mean you don’t have to
follow the law,” Wallace told
the judges.
The state constitution says
redistricting plans are supposed to be adopted by a

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matic shutdown systems
were bypassed so that they
did not alert the crew, the
report said. And rig workers
didn’t receive adequate training on how and when to disconnect the rig from the well
to avoid an explosion, it said.
“These deficiencies indicate
that Transocean’s failure to
have an effective safety management system and instill a
culture that emphasizes and
ensures safety contributed to
this disaster,” the report said.
Transocean spokesman
Brian Kennedy said the
Coast Guard inspected the
Deepwater Horizon seven
months before the blowout
and certified it as being fully
compliant with all applicable
marine safety compliance
standards.
“We strongly disagree with
— and documentary evidence in the Coast Guard’s
possession refutes — key
findings in this report,” Kennedy said in a statement.
The report also found lax
oversight by the rig’s flag
state, the Republic of the
Marshall Islands, a Pacific
nation where Transocean
registered the Deepwater
Horizon in 2005. It said the
Coast Guard should ramp up
its inspections of such foreign-flagged drilling rigs.
The Marshall Islands does
not inspect rigs itself and
instead farms out the work

joint resolution of the House
and Senate.
During the 2011 session,
the House passed its own
redistricting plan, but the
Senate rejected the House
plan. Both chambers passed
a Senate plan, but the Senate
plan stalled because it was
in the same resolution with
the House plan. When the
session ended April 7, both
plans died.
The 2010 Census showed
significant growth in DeSoto
County, a relatively affluent
area just south of Memphis,
Tenn. It showed population
losses in the economically
struggling Delta.
A lawsuit by the state chapter of the National Associa-

tion for the Advancement of
Colored People moved redistricting into federal court.
The suit, filed in March,
seeks to block elections this
year in the legislative districts that have been used for
the past decade but are now
outdated.
Any redistricting plans
adopted by lawmakers must
be approved by the U.S.
Justice Department, which
checks to ensure that the
plans don’t dilute minorities’
voting strength. Lawmakers say Justice department
approval generally takes
about 60 days.
Robert McDuff, an attorney
representing the House Elections Committee in the redis-

tricting lawsuit, made similar arguments to Hood’s on
Friday, asking the judges to
submit the House and Senate
plans that were debated
during the recent session
to the Justice Department.
McDuff said that based on
conversations he’s had with
Justice Department deputies,
he believes the department
would approve those plans
for the 2011 election cycle.
The presiding judge hearing arguments Friday, Grady
Jolly of the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, asked GOP
attorney Wallace if he agrees
with McDuff’s assessment
about quick Justice approval.
“My friends in the Justice
Department all lost their

to qualified third parties.
In the case of the Deepwater Horizon, inspections
were done by the American
Bureau of Shipping and Det
Norske Veritas. The Marshall
Islands “effectively abdicated
its vessel inspection responsibilities,” the report said.
Bill Gallagher, the senior
deputy commissioner of maritime affairs for the Marshall
Islands, blasted the Coast
Guard report. He noted
that the Coast Guard also
has third parties perform
inspections.
“We are followng pretty
much the same route the
Coast Guard takes,” he said.
“It’s a bit of the pot calling
the kettle black.”
The Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement is
expected to release its own
report on the explosion
before issuing a joint final
report with the Coast Guard
later this year.
Previously, a presidential
commission pointed to a cascade of technical and managerial failures, including a
faulty cement job and a poor
safety culture in the industry. BP’s own internal investigation spread the blame for
the disaster among all the
partners on the rig. A panel
looking into why a key safety
device, the blowout preventer, failed to do its job pointed
to a faulty design, among
other problems. The Chemical Safety Board, the Justice
Department and other enti-

ties have yet to release their
own findings.
The courts will also be
assigning blame and liability,
and officials of the oil companies could even be held criminally negligent.
The Coast Guard’s report
said electrical equipment
on board, some of which
was severely corroded, may
not have been able to prevent flammable gases from
igniting.
Gas detectors on board the

rig were not set to automatically activate an emergency
shutdown system to stop the
engines and halt the flow
of outside air into engine
rooms, and the bridge crew
had not been trained on
when they should activate
the systems. If the shutdown
system had been activated
as soon as gas was detected,
the explosions in the engine
room area could have been
delayed or avoided, the
report said.

jobs,” Wallace said, eliciting
laughter from a courtroom
audience that included Democrats and Republicans.
The judges could hire
experts and draw legislative districts themselves, but
Hood argued that would be
expensive.
The attorney general’s
office said after the hearing
Friday that Mississippi paid
about $200,000 in legal fees
after a congressional redistricting dispute went to federal court. The state picked
up the tab for all parties
involved in that case.

PRECISION FORECAST
BY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST
BARBIE BASSSETT
TODAY

TONIGHT

85°

68°

Partly cloudy with highs in
the mid-80s and lows in the
upper 60s

WEATHER
This weather package is
compiled from historical
records and information
provided by the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, the
City of Vicksburg and The
Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECAST
Sunday-tuesday
Chance of showers and
thunderstorms; highs in
the mid-80s; lows in the
lower 60s

STATE FORECAST
TOday
Partly cloudy; highs in the
mid-80s; lows in the upper 60s
Sunday-tuesday
Chance of showers and
thunderstorms; highs in
the mid-80s; lows in the
lower 60s

32 more corpses found
in pits, total at 177
MEXICO CITY — Like
weathermen announcing
the daily rainfall, authorities released another tally of
corpses unearthed from pits
in the northeastern state of
Tamaulipas: 32 bodies discovered in the past week, bringing the monthly total to 177.
And that’s only in one
region of the country.
The killing fields extend
to the nearby states of Durango and Nuevo Leon and to
the northwestern states of
Sonora and Sinaloa, where
so far this month authorities
have found 68 bodies. They
continue to dig for more.
The graves are discovered
with such numbing regularity that “at this point nothing shocks us,” wrote Miguel
Carbonell in a column for the
daily El Universal newspaper
published Thursday.
The latest bodies were
found in eight pits in the
town of San Fernando,
Tamaulipas state prosecutors said in a statement
released late Thursday.
Authorities began exhuming corpses in San Fernando
on April 1 after they were led
to the site by suspects who
confessed to kidnapping and
killing bus passengers traveling through the area. It is the
same region where authorities say the Zetas drug gang
killed and buried 72 Central American migrants in
August.

Official: Libyan army
to pull out of Misrata
TRIPOLI, Libya — A
senior Libyan government
official says the Libyan army
will pull out of the besieged,
rebel-held city of Misrata
and be replaced by armed
tribesmen.
Deputy Foreign Minister
Khaled Kaim did not say
when the military would
withdraw and under what
conditions.
Misrata is Libya’s thirdlargest city and has been
besieged by the Libyan army
for nearly two months. Hundreds of people have been
killed in clashes between
rebels and government
forces. The international
community has accused
Libyan forces of firing indiscriminately at civilian areas.

6 children drown
in Brazilian lake
SAO PAULO — A boat carrying a family on a Brazilian lake has capsized and six
children are dead. Police say
at least seven other people in
the boat survived, including
two children.
Police say four boys and
two girls drowned in Friday’s
accident near the town of
Lago Verde in northeastern
Brazil. They ranged in age
from 2 to 12.
Police said the family was
traveling to a nearby town
when the small boat capsized
in the middle of the lake.

U.S. missiles kill
25 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — U.S. missiles killed 25 people in an alQaida and Taliban sanctuary
close to the Afghan border
on Friday, Pakistani officials
said, signaling American
intent to press ahead with
such attacks despite renewed
protests by Islamabad.
In another reminder of the
difficulties facing Washington, a well-known politician said he and his followers would try to “blockade”
NATO supplies that pass
through Pakistan en route to
Afghanistan over the weekend to protest the strikes.
Some of the missile victims
were militants loyal to Hafiz
Gul Bahadar, a commander
known to stage attacks
against foreign troops in
Afghanistan, but two women
and five children were also
killed, the officials said.
There was no immediate
way to verify that information independently because
access to the border area is
forbidden.

The Vicksburg Post

At least 75 killed in bloodiest day of Syria uprising
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian
security forces fired bullets
and tear gas Friday at tens
of thousands of protesters
across the country, killing at
least 75 people in the bloodiest
day of the monthlong uprising
and signaling that the authoritarian regime was prepared
to turn more ruthless to put
down the revolt against President Bashar Assad.
Among the dead were a
70-year-old man and two boys
ages 7 and 10, Amnesty International said. In the southern
town of Izraa, a man ran carrying the body of a young boy,
whose hair was matted with
blood from a gaping wound on
his head, as another child wept
and shouted, “My brother!”
Footage of the scene was
posted on the protest movement’s main Facebook page.
In other towns, protesters scattered for cover from
sniper bullets, then dragged
corpses through the streets.
Mobile phone images showed
the bodies lined up on the floor
inside buildings.
The rallies, most marching
out from mosques after Friday’s noon Muslim prayers,
erupted in towns and cities
stretching along the breadth
of the country, including in at
least two suburbs of the capital, Damascus.
The death toll was likely to
rise, raising fears that there
will be an explosion of violence today as relatives bury
their dead in funerals that
in the past have turned into

The associated press

Protesters burn a poster of Syrian president Bashar Assad during a demonstration on
Friday.
new protests. Ammar Qurabi,
head of Syria’s National Organization for Human Rights,
said another 20 people were
missing.
Friday’s toll was double that
of the previous deadliest day
of the uprising, on April 8,
when 37 were killed around
the country. The heavier
crackdown came after Assad
warned a week ago that any
further unrest would be considered “sabotage” after he
made the gesture of lifting
long-hated emergency laws, a
step he ratified on Thursday.

It was a clear sign that regime
was prepared to escalate an
already bloody response,
with nearly 300 already dead
in more than five weeks. Previously, Assad has mixed the
crackdown with gestures of
reform in a failed attempt to
deflate the protests.
The bloodshed so far has only
served to invigorate protesters
whose demands have snowballed from modest reforms
to the downfall of the 40-year
Assad family dynasty. Each
Friday, growing numbers of
people in multiple cities have

taken to the streets despite
the near certainty that they
would come under swift attack
from security forces and shadowy pro-government gunmen
known as “shabiha.”
“Bullets started flying over
our heads like heavy rain,”
said one witness in Izraa,
where police opened fire on
protesters marching in front
of the mayor’s office. The town
is located in southern Daraa
province where the uprising
kicked off in mid-March.
Tens of thousands marched
Friday in the Damascus sub-

urbs of Douma and Hajar
Aswad, the central cities of
Hama and Homs, Latakia
and Banias on the coast, the
northern cities of Raqqa and
Idlib, the northeastern Kurdish region, and in Daraa, witnesses said.
It was certainly one of the
most robust gatherings to
date, but it was difficult to
gauge whether turnout was
larger than heavy demonstrations a week ago. Because the
protests were so quickly and
violently dispersed Friday, it
appeared that many gatherings were broken up before
the masses hit the streets.
Amnesty International put
the day’s death toll at 75, mirroring reports from witnesses
to The Associated Press.
Friday’s witness accounts
could not be independently
confirmed because Syria
has expelled journalists and
restricted access to trouble
spots. Witnesses spoke on
condition of anonymity for
fear of reprisals.
As it has stepped up its
response, Assad’s regime
has seemed little affected by
mounting international concern over the violence.
White House spokesman
Jay Carney said the U.S. calls
on the Syrian government
“to cease and desist from the
use of violence against peaceful protesters” and to “follow
through on its promises and
take action toward the kind of
concrete reform that they’ve
promised.”

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Freedom
comes when
parents learn
to let go
Q: There’s so much on the
news about child abductions, murders, etc. that I
often find myself in a panic
when it comes to my tween
girls. How can I overcome
the urge to just lock them
in their rooms until they
reach adulthood?
Jim: A survey by the
Mayo Clinic revealed that
these are the five things
parents are most worried
about: 1)kidnapping; 2)
school snipers; 3)terrorists; 4)
dangerous
strangers; and 5)
drugs.
Those
things certainly are
scary. But
now consider the
five things
that, in
FOCUS ON
reality, are
THE FAMILY
the most
likely to
cause
death to
children
under the
age of 18,
according to the
Centers
for Disease Control: 1)car
FOCUS ON
accidents;
THE FAMILY
2)homicide —
usually at
the hands of someone they
know; 3)child abuse; 4)suicide; and 5)drowning.
These are frightening,
too, but they probably
aren’t the first things that
come to mind when you
worry about your girls. As
The New York Times has
observed, there’s a disconnect going on here. In
the age of 24-hour news,
we hear horrible stories
of abductions and school
shooters, but the fact is
that in the grand scheme
of things, those things are
rare — they are the worstcase scenarios. Thank
goodness!
Q: Our daughter is 14
and wants to do group
dates. Is that appropriate
for a 14-year-old, and when
would you recommend
single or group dating?
Juli: As you wrestle
through decisions regarding your daughter and
dating, I’d encourage you
to consider a few questions.
First, what do you mean
by “group dating”? In my
opinion, any mixed-gender
interaction among 14-yearolds should be supervised
by adults.
Every parent will have
a different opinion about
the magic age when his or
her daughter is ready to
date, whether alone or in a
group.
Wise parents might even
have a different answer for
different children, as some
mature more quickly than
others.
Whatever age you decide
to let your daughter date,
prepare her for it.
•

DR. Juli

Slattery

Jim
Daly

Jim Daly is president of Focus on
the Family, P.O. Box 444 Colorado
Springs, CO 80903, host of the Focus
on the Family radio program, and a
husband and father of two. Dr. Juli
Slattery is a licensed psychologist,
co-host of Focus on the Family,
author of several books, and a wife
and mother of three. The website is
www.family.org.

KATIE CARTER•The Vicksburg Post

Pete Stone, from left, president of the Y’s board of directors; the Rev.
Kent Campbell of Woodlawn Baptist Church; the Rev. Chris Young of
Hawkins United Methodist Church; and Jack Hollingsworth, vocalist,
stand at Fort Nogales inside the Vicksburg National Military Park, where

the Y’s annual community Easter service will be at 7 a.m. Sunday. Shuttles to Fort Nogales will roll from the USS Cairo parking lot. The service
will feature area ministers and musicians of all denominations.

Baha’i Faith
Services for Baha’i Faith
are comprised of a devotional
at 11 a.m. Sunday, followed
by Deepening at 11:30. The
phone number is 601-4155360.

Berachah
Services at Berachah
Church, 2918 Fisher Ferry
Road, begin at 7 tonight with
praise and worship.
Easter services begin at 10
a.m. Sunday school is canceled. Children’s church is
provided for ages 4-8. A nursery is provided for ages up
to 3.
Women’s Bible study is at
6:30 p.m. Monday.
Awana begins at 6 p.m.
Wednesday. Bible study and
youth service are at 7.
Roger Cresswell is pastor.
Visit www.berachah.net.

Bethlehem M.B.
Services at Bethlehem
M.B. Church, 3055 N. Washington St., begin at 9:30 a.m.
with Sunday school. Mattie L.
Brown is superintendent.
Worship is each second
Sunday. Covenant meeting is
each third Sunday. Communion is each fourth Sunday.
All begin at 11 a.m.
Choir rehearsal begins at 7
p.m. Wednesday before the
second and fourth Sunday.
Bible class begins at 6 p.m.
Wednesday.
The Rev. Dennis Redden Sr.
is pastor.

Bingham
Memorial M.B.
Services at Bingham
Memorial M.B. Church, 1063
Green St., begin at 9:30 a.m.
with Sunday school, led by
Dorothy Miles, assistant
superintendent. Second
Sunday services include
Covenant at 10:30 a.m. and
worship at 11. Worship with
Communion are each fourth
Sunday at 11.
Prayer meeting/Bible
study begins at 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday.
Youth choir rehearsal
begins at noon each second
Saturday. Choir rehearsal
begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday
before the fourth Sunday and
at noon each fourth Saturday.
The Rev. James Archer is
pastor.

Bovina Baptist
Services at Bovina Baptist
Church, 5293 U.S. 80, begin
at 9:45 with Sunday school
led by Jim Daquilla. Worship
begins at 11 with the sanctuary choir presenting an
Easter cantata, “Because We
Believe,” led Jerry Stuart,
music minister. Brian Parker
is minister of students and
education. Jo Sumrall is minister of children. Sunday evening services are canceled.
Wednesday evening activities begin at 6 with prayer
service, handbells, youth
Bible study and children’s
choir rehearsal. Adult choir
rehearsal begins at 6:45. A
nursery is provided.

Signing for the hearing
impaired is available upon
request during the classic
and creative services.
Call 601-636-2596. Visit
www.bowmarbaptist.org.

Bradley’s Chapel U.M.C.
Services at Bradley’s
Chapel United Methodist
Church, 13815 Oak Ridge
Road, begin at 7 a.m. with
Easter sunrise service, followed by breakfast at 8.
Sunday school begins at 8:30.
Children’s Easter cantata
begins at 9:30.
Music is led by Hope Raney.
Earlene Alexander is pianist.
Children’s church is led by
Ann Grimshel.
Wednesday night prayer
meeting begins at 6 at the
home of John and Beverly
Harris.
The Rev. Harry Hawkins is
pastor.

Bypass Church of Christ
Sunday services at Bypass
Church of Christ, 787 U.S. 61
North, begin at 9:30 a.m. with
Bible classes for all ages.
Worship is at 10:30 with Dr.
Willie Nettle, minister, delivering the sermon. Worship
consists of congregational
and a cappella singing and
observance of the Lord’s
Supper, followed by fellowship meal in the church
annex.
Wednesday, Bible study for
all ages begins at 7 p.m.
For transportation or a free
Bible correspondence course
or home Bible study, call 601638-6165.

Calvary Baptist
Easter Sunrise services at
Calvary Baptist Church, 2878
Old Highway 27, begin at 7
on the hill across from the
church. Coffee and donuts
will follow in the fellowship
hall. Sunday school is canceled. Worship is at 10:30
with Bruce Bryant, interim
pastor, delivering the message. Junior church is canceled. R.L. Sigrest is worship
leader. Evening activities are
canceled.
GROW visitation is at 6
p.m. Tuesday. Children’s
activities, youth and prayer
meeting begin at 6 p.m.
The youths will have a yard
sale at 6 a.m. April 30.

Calvary M.B.
Services at Calvary M.B.
Church, 406 Klein St., begin
at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday
school, followed by Easter
program at 11:15. Refreshments will be served. Worship is at 11 a.m. each first
and fifth Sunday. Breakfast is
served at 9 a.m. each second
Sunday. Mission meeting is
each third Sunday. Covenant
is each fourth Sunday. Both
begin at 11 a.m.

Cedar Grove M.B.
Services at Cedar Grove
M.B. Church, 3300 Grange
Hall Road, begin at 9:30 a.m.
with Sunday school led by
Jimmie Jefferson, superintendent. Worship begins at
11. Communion is each third
Sunday.
Choir rehearsal is at 7 p.m.
Monday.
Prayer meeting and Bible
study are Tuesdays, and
Tuesday Night Live worship
is each first Tuesday. Both
begin at 7 p.m.
Media Ministry meetings
are at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Children’s choir rehearsal
is at 7 p.m. each fourth
Thursday.
Brotherhood Ministry
meets at 7 p.m. each second
Friday.

Christ Episcopal
Christ Episcopal Church,
1115 Main Street, will celebrate the Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord: Easter
Sunday with Holy Eucharist,
Rite I ,at 8 a.m. in the chapel
and Holy Eucharist, Rite II,
at 10 in the nave. The Rev.
David Elliott will preach and
celebrate at both services.
Choir practice begins at 9:30
in the parish hall. Fellowship and refreshments follow
the 10 a.m. service in the
parish hall. Childcare will be
provided during the 10 a.m.

Michael R. Reed Sr. is pastor.

devotion
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the
power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

Romans 1:16
•
Are you willing to spend and be spent for the Lord today, or
are there just too many other things on your agenda? Are
you willing no matter if it causes blood, sweat and tears to
be used by the Lord, or are you more interested in where you
are going to spend your next vacation?
•
So many of us are chicken when it comes to witnessing for
Jesus Christ. We cluck and duck when the subject of God or
religion is raised. We hope no one is looking when we ask
God to bless our food in a public place.
•
We need more of the spirit of the saints who are suffering for
the sake of the Gospel this very minute in prisons, in torture,
in abuse — all because they profess a love for Jesus Christ.
Jesus said, “Whosever therefore shall be ashamed of ME and
of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation: of him
also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when He cometh in
the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” (Mark 8:38)
Devotion written by Dr. Adrian Rogers in conjunction with Love Worth Finding
Ministries. Web site: http://www.lwf.org

service.
On Wednesday, the coffee/
Bible study group meets at
10 a.m. in the Sunday school
building. A lay healing service begins at 12:15 p.m. in
the chapel.
Call 601-638-5899 or visit
www.christchurchvburg.
dioms.org.

Christian Home
Services at Christian Home
No. 2 M.B. Church, 4768 Lee
Road, begin at 9 a.m with
Sunday school. Worhsip is
at 11 each second and fourth
Sunday. Communion is each
second Sunday.
Bible study begins at 6 p.m.
Tuesday.
For transportation call
601-883-0826 or 601-636-0419.
The Rev. Johnny Hughes is
pastor.

Church of Christ
Services at Church of
Christ, 3333 N. Frontage
Road, begin at 9 a.m. with
Bible classes. Worship is at
10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. with
Eric Welch speaking.
On Wednesday, a ladies
class begins at 9:45 a.m.
Classes for all ages are at 7
p.m.
Call 601-636-4801 or e-mail
vickcofc@cablelynx.com for
a free correspondence course
or home Bible study course.
“A Minute of Inspiration”
is broadcast on River 101.3
between 6:45 and 6:55 a.m.
weekdays.

The Church of the Holy
Trinity, Episcopal
The Church of the Holy
Trinity, Episcopal, South and
Monroe streets, will celebrate the Sunday of Resurrection: Easter Sunday with
Holy Eucharist, Rite I, at 8
a.m. and Holy Eucharist,
Rite II, at 10:30. The Rev. Dan
McKee will preach and celebrate at both services. The
ECW will host Easter Brunch
at 9 in McInnis Parish Hall.
Pilates is at 9 a.m. Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday.
Vestry meeting begins at 6
p.m. Monday.
On Tuesday, Lunch Bunch
Group meets at 12:10 p.m.
Congregational supper
begins at 6 p.m Wednesday.

Clover Valley M.B.
Easter egg hunt begins at
5 today.
Services at Clover Valley
M.B. Church, 7670 Mississippi 27 South, begin at 10
a.m. with Sunday school, followed at 11 with the Easter
service. Communion is each
first Sunday; Covenant is
each third Sunday; pantry
donations are accepted each
second and fifth Sunday;
fourth Sunday worship is
a devotional service by the
ministry; all start at 11.
Bible study is at 7 p.m. each
Tuesday. Missionary workers
meet at 6:30 p.m. each second
Tuesday.
Choir rehearsal begins at 5
p.m. Monday and at 11 a.m.
each Saturday before the
second Sunday.
Call 601-636-6375 or 601-

6382070. The Rev. Samuel
Jones is pastor.

Crawford Street U.M.C.
Services at Crawford Street
United Methodist Church,
900 Crawford St., begin at
9:45 a.m. with Sunday school
confirmation class. Chancel choir rehearsal begins
at 9:30. Bring fresh flowers
to the sancturay by 10 for
the Living Cross. Worship is
at 10:55. Evening activities
are canceled. The Rev. Cary
Stockett is pastor.
Ruth Circle meets at 6 p.m.
Monday.
On Tuesday, men’s breakfast/devotional begins at 6:50
a.m. Rachel Circle meets at
9:30 at the home of Phylis
Cowart.
On Wednesday, a special
music program begins at 6
p.m. featuring Cary Stockett
and Don Patterson. Children
and youth are invitied to the
program. A nursery will be
provided for the younger
preschoolers.
Play school class pictures
will be taken on Thursday
and Friday.
Visit www.crawfordstreetumc.org.

Cross Point
Easter egg hunt begins
today at 10 for ages up to
12, followed by a light lunch
potluck.
Easter sunrise services at
Cross Point Church, 510 Porters Chapel Road, begin at 6,
followed by potluck breakfast. Sunday school is canceled. Worship is at 11 with
Robert Andrews, pastor,
delivering the sermon.
On Wednesday, Bible study
for all ages begins at 6 p.m. A
nursery is provided.

Edwards Baptist
At Edwards Baptist Church,
101 Magnolia St., Edwards
Easter Community church
service begins at 8 a.m.
Sunday with the Rev. Lister
Bowdoin, pastor of Edwards
United Methodist church,
bringing the sermon. Sunday
school begins at 10, followed
by worship at 11. Bible study
begins at 6 p.m. Sunday and
Wednesday. All services will
be led by Dr. John McCall,
interim pastor. Choir practice
begins at 9:15 a.m. Sunday.
Curlee Green is minister
of music. Linda Dickson is
pianist.
A nursery is provided and
managed by Debby Best.
Call 601-852-8141 or visit
edwardsbaptch@bellsouth.
net..

First Baptist
Services at First Baptist
Church, 1607 Cherry St.,
begin at 9:30 a.m. with Bible
study, followed by worship
at 10:50 with Dr. Matt Buckles, pastor, delivering the
message. Bible study groups
are available, and a nursery
is provided. Sunday school
and morning worship for the
hearing impaired are available. Evening services are
canceled.
Celebrate Recovery, GriefShare and DivorceCare begin
at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the
Mafan Building, 1315 Adams
St.
On Wednesday, English as
a Second Language begins
at 8:30 a.m.; Mission Mosaic
at 4:30 p.m.; family supper
begins at 4:45; and church
family time begins at 5:50.
Children’s choir program
begins at 6:15.
On Friday, English as a
Second Language begins at
8:30 a.m. Celebrate Recovery will meet at 6 p.m. at the
Mafan Building.
Visit www.fbcvicksburg.
org.

First Christian Church
Easter egg hunt and cookout begin today at 3.
Services at First Christian Church, (Disciples of
Christ), 3005 Porters Chapel
Road, begin at 9:30 a.m. with
Sunday school. Worship is
at 10:45 with the chancel
choir presenting the anthem.
Chaplain Jeffery Murphy
will deliver the message.
The Lord’s Supper is celebrated weekly. A nursery is
provided.
Choir practice begins at 6
p.m. Wednesday.

Grace Baptist
Services at Grace Baptist Church, 1729 Hankinson Road, begin with Bible
study at 9:45 a.m. Worship
with a baptismal service is at
11, with the Rev. Bryan Abel
delivering the message. Ed
Crawford will lead the music.
Evening services are
canceled.
Prayer meeting begins at
6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Greater Grove Street
Services at Greater Grove
Street M.B. Church, 2715
Alcorn Drive, begin at 8:30
a.m. with worship. Fifth
Sunday services begin at 10
a.m. The Lord’s Supper is
observed each first Sunday.
Children’s church and a
nursery are provided.
Bible school begins at 6 p.m.
with Hour of Power Service
each Wednesday before the
fourth Sunday.

Baptismal is each last
Wednesday.
On Thursday, Bible Class
and fellowship begin at 10:30
a.m.
Valet parking is available
for the handicapped or senior
citizens. For transportation or prayer request, call
601-218-3911 or visit www.
ggsmbc.org.
C.J. Williams is minister of
music. The Rev. Dr. Casey D.
Fisher is pastor.

Greater Mount Zion
Services at Greater Mount
Zion Baptist Church, 907
Farmer St., begin at 10 a.m.
with Sunday school, followed
by worship at 11. Communion is each first Sunday.
Youth ministry meets at
6:30 p.m. each second and
fourth Tuesday.
Youth choir rehearses at
6:30 p.m. each third Monday
before the fourth Sunday.
Prayer meeting is at 6:30
p.m. each Wednesday. Bible
study is at 7.
Praise and worship choir
rehearses at 6:30 each
Monday before the first,
second and fifth Sunday. The
male chorus rehearses at
7 p.m. Thursday before the
third Sunday.
Womens ministry meets at
6:30 p.m. each first and third
Tuesday.
For transportation contact
601-636-0826. Visit www.greatermountzion@bellsouth.net.
Gregory Butler is pastor.

Higher Praise
Services at Higher Praise,
a multicultural, nondenominational, spirit-filled church,
260 Highway 27 South, begin
with Worship and the Word
at 10:30 a.m. Sunday with
Chaz Bosarge, pastor.
On Wednesday, Growing In
Grace Bible study begins at 7
p.m., led by Bosarge.
Prayer and Praise is each
first and third Thursday
from 7 until 8 p.m.
Judah Ministries for the
youths is each second and
fourth Wednesday at 7 p.m.,
led by Renelle Bosarge.
Call 601-594-0183

Holy Cross Anglican
Easter services at Holy
Cross Anglican Church
(Reformed Episcopal
Church), 1021 Crawford St.
inside the former Sisters of
Mercy Chapel, begin at 9:15
a.m. with morning prayer.
Bible study follows at 9:30,
and Palm Sunday Holy Communion begins at 10:30;
baptized Christians may
participate. The Rev. Mark
Bleakley presides. Child care
is provided.
The sanctuary and fellowship rooms are accessible to
the handicapped through the
back gate on Adams Street.
“Renewing the Face of the
Earth: Conversation on Art,
Spirituality and Anglican
Culture,” a podcast, can be
heard at www.markbleakleystainedglass2.blogspot.com.
Call 601-529-4838.

House of Peace
Services at The House
of Peace Worship Church
International, 2372 Grove
St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with
Sunday school, followed by
worship at 11.
On Monday, a Back to the
Basics Bible Class is at 5 p.m.
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church events
Continued from Page B2.
Intercessory prayer is at 6.
Women of Peace fellowship
begins at 6:30.
On Tuesday, intercessory
prayer begins at 5. Bible
class, budget/finance and
Teen Talk are at 6. Choir
rehearsal is at 7.
Perfect Peace is broadcast
at 6 a.m. Monday through
Friday on WUFX-11.

Jones Chapel M.B.
Services at Jones Chapel
M.B. Church, 1340 Bay St.,
begins at 9:30 a.m. with
Sunday school. Worship is
each second Sunday and
fourth Sunday at 11 a.m.
Communion is each fourth
Sunday. Breakfast is each
first and third Sunday at 8:30.
Bible class begins at 6:30
p.m. Wednesday.
The Rev. Adrian Clark is
pastor.

King David No. 1 M.B.
Services at King David No.
1 M.B., 2717 Letitia St., begin
at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday
school. Communion is at 11
each second Sunday.
Choir rehearsal is at 6 p.m.
each first, third and fourth
Monday.
Bible study is at 6 p.m.
Wednesdays.
The Usher Board meets at
11 a.m. each second Saturday.
Creative Woman’s ministry
meets at 9 a.m. each fourth
Saturday.
The Rev. A.L. Hines is
pastor.

King David No. 2 M.B.
Easter services at King
David No. 2. M.B. Church,
1224 Bowmar Ave., begin at
9 a.m. Sunday school begins
at 9:45. Worship with Communion is each second and
fourth Sunday at 11. The Rev.
Johnny L. Williams is pastor.

King Solomon
Sunday services at King
Solomon Baptist Church,
1401 Farmer St., begin with
Hour of Soul-Saving Power at
8:15 a.m. with the male choir.
Regular worship follows at 10
with the Voices of Praise providing the music. The Rev.
R.D. Bernard, pastor, will
deliver the message. Nursery is provided beginning at
9:30 a.m.
The service can be heard
on WRTM-FM 100.5 at 11 a.m.
and on WJIW 104.7 FM and
KJIW 94.5 FM at 7 p.m.
Discipleship training is at
6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Bible study is at noon each
Friday. CDs or DVDs of
Sunday messages are available by calling 601-638-7658.
For transportation call 601831-4387 or 601-630-5342 the
day before.

Lighthouse Assembly
Services at Lighthouse
Assembly of God, 1790 Sherman Ave., begin at 9:45 a.m.
with Sunday school. Worship is at 10:45 with Debbie
Quimby leading praise and
worship. Children’s church
is led by Harry and Vickie
Ogle. Wednesday services
begin at 6:30 p.m. with Bible
study for all ages. The Rev.
George Farris is pastor.

Lighthouse Baptist
Easter activities will start
today at 4 with an Easter
egg hunt for the youth at the
church, followed by fellow-

Alban Road, begin at 9 a.m.
with Sunday school led by
Leonard Knight, deacon and
superintendent. Worship
with Communion is each first
Sunday; praise and worship
are each second, third and
fourth Sunday; youth service
is each fifth Sunday; all begin
at 11.
On Wednesday, prayer/
Bible study is at 6:30 p.m.
On Thursday, choir
rehearsal begins at 6 p.m.
Women of Faith meet at 10
a.m. each second Saturday.
The Rev. Henry Lee Taylor
Jr. is pastor.

Living Word Baptist

Services at Mount Ararat
M.B., 50 Culkin Road, begin
at 10 a.m. with Sunday school
each second through fifth
Sunday. Henry Middleton is
superintendent. Communion
is each first Sunday at 11:30.
Choir rehearsal begins at
5 p.m. Thursday before the
first Sunday.
The Rev. Johnny L. Williams is pastor.

Services at Living Word
Baptist Church, 2845 Clay
St., Suite 13 (in the Emmich
Building), begin at 9:30 a.m.
with Sunday school and new
members orientation. Worship is at 11. Morning Glory
worship services are at 8:30
a.m. each first and third
Sunday.
Bible study is at 7 each
Wednesday night.
Women’s ministry is at
10 a.m. each first and third
Saturday.
Man II Man, a men’s ministry, is at 8:30 a.m. each
second and fourth Sunday.
Dr. Stevie C. Duncan is
senior pastor.
Visit thelivingwordbaptistchurch.com. E-mail livingwordbless@aol.com

Lutheran Church
of the Messiah
The Divine Service for the
Resurrection of Our Lord
will be celebrated at The
Lutheran Church of the Messiah (LCMS), 301 Cain Ridge
Road, at 9 a.m.
Call 601-636-1894 or visit
lutheranchurchofthemessiah.org.

Mercy Seat Baptist
Services at Mercy Seat
Baptist, 5 Dos Casas Lane,
begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday
school, led by Grace Brown.
Communion begins at 11
a.m. each third and fourth
Sunday. Covenant is each
third Sunday.
On Wednesday, prayer service and Bible study from
the Book of Acts begin at 5:45
p.m.
Choir practice led by Mattie
Lacey begins at 6:30 p.m.
each Thursday before the
third and fourth Sunday.
Musicians are Shirley
Coleman-Harris and Charlie Gross. The Rev. Rudy L.
Smith is pastor.

Mount Calvary Baptist
Services at Mount Calvary
Baptist Church, 1350 East
Ave., begin at 9:30 a.m. with
Sunday school, directed by
Al Evans, superintendent.
Worship is at 11 with Mincer
Minor, pastor, delivering the
message. Communion is each
second and third Sunday at
11. Children’s ministry for
ages 1-7 begins at 9:30 a.m. in
the annex each Sunday.
Brotherhood meets at
6 p.m. each first Tuesday. Ushers meet at 6 each
Tuesday before the second
Sunday.
Wednesday’s youth Bible
study and intercessory
prayer begin at 6 p.m., followed by adult Bible study
at 7.
Junior choir rehearses at
5 p.m. Thursday before the
first and third Sunday. Senior
choir rehearses at 6 p.m.
each Thursday. Male chorus
rehearses at 6 p.m. Thursday
before the fifth Sunday.
Women’s ministry begins at
10 a.m. each first Saturday.
The trustee board meets at
9 a.m. and deacons at 11 a.m.
Saturday before the second
Sunday.
For transportation call 601636-4999.

Mount Carmel M.B.
Services at Mount Carmel
M.B. Church, 2629 Alma
St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with
Sunday school led by
Keafur Grimes. Worship
and Communion are each
first Sunday; Sunday school
enhancement is each second
Sunday; worship and testimony service are each third
Sunday; and youth services
each fourth and fifth Sunday.
All are at 11 a.m.
Prayer meeting/Bible
study at begins at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday.

M.B. Church, E.D. Straughter Baptist Memorial Center,
1411 Martin Luther King
Blvd., are each second and
fourth Sunday with Sunday
school at 9:15 a.m., followed
by worship at 11.
Choir practice at 1 p.m. is
each Saturday before the
second Sunday.
The Rev. Andrew Cook is
pastor. Call 601-415-0522 or
601-415-0611. Visit www.newbeginning.baptistchurch@
yahoo.com.

New Mount Elem M.B.
Senior choir rehearsal
begins at 4 p.m. Saturday
before the first Sunday.
Male choir rehearsal begins
at 7 p.m. Friday before the
third Sunday. Youth choir
rehearsal is at 1 p.m. Saturday before the fourth Sunday.
Mission Society begins at
3 p.m. each second Monday
and at 2 p.m. each fourth Saturday at Carmel Manor, 910
Bowman.
Dr. Franklin L. Lassiter is
pastor.

except for the third Sunday
at 10 a.m. Steven Randle,
assistant pastor is teacher.
Pearls of Wisdom and
Intercessory Prayer follow
Sunday school each fourth
Sunday. Communion is each
third Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
with Charlie Blackmore,
pastor, officiating.
Bible Class begins at 6 p.m.
Thursday.
Choir rehearsal begins at
5 p.m. Saturday before third
Sunday.

Activities for the youth
begin at 1 today in the parking lot, followed by snacks.
Services at New Mount
Elem M.B. Church, 3014 Wisconsin Ave., begin at 9:30 a.m.
with “The True Meaning of
Easter,” Sunday school program. Worship with Communion is at 11.
On Tuesday, prayer begins
at 6:30 p.m., followed by Bible
class at 7.
Dr. Leonard Walker is
pastor.

Mount Carmel

Mount Zion No. 4 M.B.

New Mount Pilgrim

Sunday services at Mount
Carmel Ministries, 2015
Grove St., begin at 9:30 a.m.
with Sunday school for all
ages. Worship begins at 11
with Communion each first
Sunday.
Musicians rehearsal begins
at 6 p.m. Monday.
On Wednesday, praise and
worship choir rehearsal
begins at 5 p.m. Bible study
is at 7.
Men’s fellowship is at 7 p.m.
Thursdays.
For information or transportation, call 601-638-9015.

Services at Mount Zion No.
4 M.B. Church, 122 Union
Ave., begin with Sunday
school at 9 a.m. each second,
third and fifth Sunday. Worship is at 9 each first and
fourth Sunday.
Choir practice is at 6 p.m.
Wednesdays before the first
and fourth Sunday.
The Rev. Henry Mayfield
Sr. is pastor.

Services at New Mount
Pilgrim M.B. Church, 501 N.
Poplar St., begin at 9:30 a.m.
with Sunday school led by
Leroy Gillum, deacon and
assistant superintendent.
Covenant will follow. Second
Sunday services begin at 11,
as well as Communion services each fourth Sunday.
Life Changing for Today’s
Christian begins at 6:30 p.m.
Monday under the direction
of Jacqueline Griffin.
Prayer meeting is at 6 p.m.
Tuesday, followed by Bible
study.
Senior choir practice led by
Jean Thomas begins at 6:30
p.m. each Wednesday before
the second, third and fourth
Sunday.
The Usher Board meets at
11 a.m. each first Saturday.
Recordings are available
from Lee Griffin, deacon, or
by calling 601-636-6386.
The Rev. Henry J. Williams
is pastor.

Mount Hebron M.B.
Services at Mount Hebron
M.B. Church, Bovina, are at
11:30 a.m. each first Sunday
and include Communion.
Willie J. White is pastor.

Mount Heroden
Services at Mount Heroden
Baptist Church, 1117-19 Clay
St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with
Sunday school directed by
Hilda Y. White, superintendent. Worship is at 11. Communion is each first Sunday
at 11. Youth service is at 11
each second Sunday.
Prayer meeting/Bible study
is at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Senior choir rehearsal is
at noon Saturday before the
first Sunday. Youth choir
rehearses each second Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
Dr. Louis A. Hall Sr. is
pastor.

Mount Olive, Villa Nova
Services at Mount Olive
Baptist Church of Villa Nova,
210 Villa Nova Road in the
Oak Ridge community, begin
with Sunday school at 8:30
a.m., followed by worship at
10. Communion is each third
Sunday at 10.
Bible class begins at 6:45
p.m. Tuesday.
The Rev. Richard Hopkins
is pastor.

Mount Pilgrim
Services at Mount Pilgrim,
Freetown, begin at 10 a.m.
with Sunday school.
First Sunday services begin
at 11 a.m. and are led by
Gracie Daniels, evangelist.
Communion is each second
Sunday and worship is each
fifth Sunday; both begin at 11
a.m. Bible class is at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
The Rev. Joseph L. Brown
is pastor.

Mount Zion No. 1 M.B.
Services at Mount Zion
No. 1 M.B. Church, 920 Fifth
North St., begin at 8:30 a.m.
with Sunday school, followed
by worship at 10. Holy Communion is each first Sunday
at 10.
Prayer service is at 6:30
p.m. Wednesday, followed by
Bible class at 7, led by Larry
Brown, pastor.
Prayer service begins at
5:30 p.m. Saturday, followed
by Bible class at 6, led by
Percy Bell, deacon.

Narrow Way M.B.
Services for Narrow Way
M.B. Church, 400 Adams St.,
in the St. James No. 1 M.B.
Church, begin at 11 a.m. each
first and third Sunday. Communion is each first Sunday.
Bible class begins at 6 p.m.
Tuesday.
The Rev. James E. Williams
is pastor. Call 601-218-8061.

Nazarene Church
Easter activities at Vicksburg First Church of the Nazarene, 3428 Wisconsin Ave.,
begin at 8:30 a.m. with breakfast. Worship begins at 10:30.
with the Rev. Chuck Parish,
senior pastor and Alberto
Carrillo, pastor of Hispanic
Ministries delivering brief
messages. Special music will
be presented in English and
Spanish. Missionary service
begins at 6 p.m.
Wednesday night youth
activities begin at 5:30 with
recreation. Dinner and Worship Team practice are at
6. Bible Study activities for
youth and adult Bible study
are at 7.
Thursday’s prayer meeting
is open to all.
Friday night the Hispanic
congregation Bible Study
and fellowship are at 7.
Visit www.vicksburg-nazarene.org for a full listing of
activities and services.
The Rev. Ron Ray is pastor
of discipleship ministries.
Pastor Emeritus is the Rev.
Kuhrman Cox.

New Beginning
Services at New Beginning

New Popular Grove
Resurrection Morning worship service at New Popular
Grove Independent Methodist Church, 4366 Mississippi
27, Edwards, begins at 8 a.m.
with Tommie L. Moore, is
associate minister. Sunday
school is at 10. Marshall
Harris is superintendent.
On Thursday, Bible class
begins at 6:30 p.m.
James O. Bowman is pastor.
Call 601-529-2044.

Northside Baptist
Services at Northside Baptist Church, 4820 N. Washington St., begin at 9:45 a.m. with
Sunday school, followed by
children’s church and worship led by Dr. Frank Lescallette, pastor, at 11.
A nursery is provided.
Evening services are
canceled.
Wednesday activities begin
at 6 p.m. with Mission Study,
men’s Bible study and GAs,
followed by prayer service
at 7.

Oakland Baptist
Services at Oakland Baptist Church, 2959 Oak Ridge
Road, begin at 7 a.m. with an
Easter service, followed by
breakfast in the fellowship
hall. Sunday school is at 9:30.
Worship begins at 10:45.
Evening activities are
canceled.
Justin Rhodes is pastor.

Open Door
Services at Open Door
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Tradition trumps fire exit concerns at Jerusalem church
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Christian believers
will fill the medieval chambers of the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
today for a ritual known as the
Holy Fire, packed shoulder to
shoulder and holding burning candles as pilgrims have

done for centuries. And, as in
centuries past, the church will
still have only one door and no
fire exit.
The saga has pitted common
sense against religious politics
and tradition at one of Christianity’s most sacred sites.
Despite warnings, safety con-

cerns have been outweighed
by a reluctance to upset a balance of power among the six
Christian sects in the Sepulcher. A fire exit still does not
exist.
“Everyone understands that
there is logic in it,” said Theofilos III, the Greek Orthodox

Patriarch of Jerusalem. “But
there is logic in the desire that
no unnecessary changes be
made. It is volatile.”
On the day before Easter, as
many as 10,000 worshippers
crowd the church in the walled
Old City for the Holy Fire, one
of the Holy Land’s most beau-

tiful customs. Many thousands more fill the alleyways
and courtyards outside.
Greek Orthodox and Armenian clergymen enter the
Edicule, the small structure
marking the site of Jesus’
tomb, holding candles that
are then lit, according to tra-

dition, by a divine flame. They
pass the fire out to the crush
of believers, who transfer it
from candle to candle, filling
the dark building with light.
The Holy Sepulcher is
revered by believers as the
site of Jesus’ crucifixion,
burial and resurrection.

Sunday.
The missionary ministry
meets at 10 a.m. each first
and third Saturday. The
ushers and wellness ministries meet after services each
third Sunday.
Boy Scouts meet at 6:30 p.m.
each second and fourth Tuesday. Youth tutorial meets at
7 p.m. each Tuesday night.
Bible study is at 7 p.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Choir rehearsal is as follows: Men of Purpose each
first and third Monday at
6:30 p.m.; Perfect Praise at
6 p.m. each fourth Wednesday; Inspirational choir each
second Wednesday at 6:30
p.m.; and United Voices
of Worship at 7 p.m. each
Wednesday.
Thomas E. Bernard is
pastor. Call 601-636-3712 on
Monday, Wednesday and
Thursday.

Bible Church, 4866 Mount
Alban Road, begin at 10:15
a.m. with Sunday school,
led by Paul Rush. Worship
is at 11:15 with Ken Harper
delivering the message. Joe
Branch is song leader. Tim
Goodson is pianist and will
provide special music. A
nursery is provided.
Call 601-636-0313. E-mail
opendoorbible@att.net.

Services at Redwood United
Methodist Church, 101 Redwood Road, across from
Redwood Elementary, begin
at 7 a.m. with breakfast, followed by worship at 8:30 a.m.
with the Rev. Barbara Hite
bringing the sermon. Sunday
school is canceled. Rachel
and Alainna Neuman will
be acolytes. Christopher and
Johnny Lee will be ushers.
A nursery is provided.
Adult choir practice begins
at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Call 601-218-6255 or 601-6367177.

Pleasant Green
Services at Pleasant Green
Baptist, 817 Bowman St.,
begin with Sunday school
at 9:30 a.m., led by Ernest
Walker, deacon and superintendent, and Elwin Johnson,
assistant superintendent.
Second Sunday worship
begins at 11 a.m. Communion
is each fourth Sunday.
Bible study is at 7 p.m.
Tuesday.
Deacons and trustees meet
each Tuesday before the
second Sunday at 6 p.m.
Mission ministry meets at
10 a.m. Saturday before the
first and third Sunday.
Herman L. Sylvester is
pastor.

Pleasant Valley M.B.
Services at Pleasant Valley
M.B. Church, 2585 N. Washington St., begin at 10 a.m.
with Sunday school, led by
Silas Bright, superintendent. Communion is at 11:30
a.m. each first Sunday. Third
Sunday worship begins at
8:30 a.m.
Prayer service begins at
6 p.m. Tuesday, followed by
Bible study at 6:30.
Choir rehearsal begins at
5:30 p.m. Friday before the
first Sunday and at 5 p.m.
Monday before the third
Sunday.
Ladies auxiliary meets at
6:30 p.m. Friday after the first
Sunday.
The Rev. E.E. Gibbs is
pastor.

Port Gibson U.M.C.
Services at Port Gibson
United Methodist Church,
901 Church St., begin at 10
a.m. with sweet rolls and
coffee being served in the fellowship hall. Worship with
Communion is at 11 with the
Rev. David Harrison bringing the message. Professional counseling is offered
at Grace Christian Counseling Center, 907 Church St.
Call 601-437-5046.

Porters Chapel U.M.C.
Services at Porters Chapel
United Methodist Church,
200 Porters Chapel Road,
begin at 7 a.m. with sunrise
service, followed by breakfast hosted by the Men’s
Club. Good News Discussion Group is at 9:45. Sunday
school is at 10. Traditional
worship service is at 11 with
the Easter cantata “Jesus,
the One and Only.” The Rev.
D.R. Ragsdale will deliver the
sermon and Nathan Prewitt
will lead congregational singing. A nursery is provided.
On Monday, Boy Scouts will
meet at 7 p.m. Cursillo will
meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Frances Hathorn Circle
meets at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Call 601-636-2966 or e-mail
pcumc­_vicksburg@yahoo.
com.

Ridgeway Baptist
Services at Ridgeway Baptist Church, 4684 Redwood
Road, begin at 9:45 a.m. with
Sunday school, followed by
children’s church and worship at 11. Evening worship
begins at 6. The Rev. Gene
Jacks, pastor, will deliver
messages of the day.
Prayer group meets at 10
a.m. Tuesdays in the fellowship hall.
Bible study/prayer meeting
begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

St. Alban’s Episcopal
Services for the Holy Saturday at Lent at St. Alban’s
Episcopal Church, 5930 Warriors Trail, begin at 9 a.m.
with Morning Liturgy. Children’s Eggtravaganza begins
at 11 with lunch provided.
The Great Easter Vigil and
Holy Baptism is at 6 p.m., followed by a reception.
Services for Easter Sunday
begin at 8:30 a.m. with Holy
Eucharist, Rite I. Choir practice is at 9:45, under the direction of Joan Leese, organist and choirmaster. Easter
egg hunt begins at 10:30 with
refreshments. Holy Eucharist, Rite II, is celebrated at
11 with the Rev. Billie Abraham, rector, celebrating and
preaching at both services.
Child care is provided at 11
a.m.
Bible study begins at 9:30
a.m. Tuesday.
Each Wednesday at 7 a.m.
is a study of “Twelve Steps
to Spiritual Wholeness, A
Christian Pathway.” Healing
service, Eucharist and potluck dinner begin at 6:30 pm.
in Edwards.
Call 601-636-6687 or visit
www.stalbansbovina.org.

St. George Orthodox
Great and Holy Pascha
(Easter) at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Christian
Church, 2709 Washington
St., include The Celebration
of Our Lord, God and Savior
Jesus Christ; The Divine Liturgy of Great and Holy Saturday at 10 a.m.; The Rush
Procession, Matins and
Divine Liturgy of the Resurrection of Our Lord, God
and Savior Jesus Christ at
11 p.m. Saturday; The Agape
Vespers at 3 p.m. Sunday,
followed by a parish picnic
and Easter egg hunt at Clear
Creek.
Confessions are heard
before and after the service.
All services are in English.
The Very Rev. John W.
Morris is pastor.
Call 601-636-2483.

St. James M.B. No. 1
Services at St. James M.B.
Church No. 1, 400 Adams St.,
begin at 9 a.m. with Sunday
school led by Robert Hubbard, superintendent, and
Walter Bell, assistant superintendent. Worship is at 11
a.m. each second and fourth
Sunday. Communion is each
second Sunday.
Bible class begins at 6 p.m.
Tuesday.
The Rev. Willie J. White is
pastor.

St. Luke Church
of God in Christ
Services at St. Luke Church
of God in Christ, 915 First
East St., begin at 9:30 a.m.
with Sunday school, followed
by worship at 11. Evening
worship service begins at 7
with YPWW Bible study.
On Tuesday, prayer/Bible
study is at 7 p.m.
A home and foreign missions Bible study is at 7
p.m. Friday. Evangelism
and youth service is each
first Friday. YWCC is each
third Friday. Choir rehearsal
is each second and fourth
Friday. All begin at 8 p.m.
One Hour of Prayer is at 8
a.m. Saturday. For transportation, call 601-638-0389.
Elder Douglas Anderson is
pastor.

St. Mary’s Catholic
Easter Vigil begins tonight
at 8.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church,
1512 Main St., will celebrate
Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord at 9 a.m.
Daily Mass is at 6:30 a.m.
Monday through Saturday in
the parish chapel.
Devotion to the Blessed
Mother is at 7 p.m. Monday
in the chapel.
Choir rehearsal is at 6 p.m.
Wednesday.
The Rosary is recited at 8:30
a.m. Sunday before Mass.
The Sacrament of Penance is
from 8 to 8:45 a.m. Sunday, or
by appointment. Youth Mass
is each fourth Sunday.
The Rev. Malcolm O’Leary,
SVD, is pastor.
Call 601-636-0115.

St. Mary’s Episcopal
St. Mary’s Episcopal
Church, 900 First North St.,
will observe the Easter Vigil
at 7 tonight with the lighting of the Paschal Candle
and the First Communion
of Easter. The Rev. Denny
Allman will celebrate the
service. A reception will
follow in the parish hall.
The Sunday of the Resurrection, Easter Day will
be celebrated at 10:30 a.m.
Allman will bring the message and serve at the Holy
Eucharist, Rite II from the
Book of Common Prayer. The
ECW will host a reception
following the service.

St. Paul Catholic
St. Paul Catholic Church,
713 Crawford St., will celebrate Easter Sunday. Vigil
Mass is at 8 tonight. Sunday
Mass is at 10:30 a.m. Communion service is at 7 a.m.
Tuesday through Friday.
R.C.I.A. will meet at 7 p.m.
Wednesday.

Shady Grove Baptist
Services at Shady Grove
Baptist Church, 61 Shady
Grove Circle, begin at 8:30
a.m. with breakfast, followed
by at 10 with Sunday school.
Worship is at 11 each first
and fourth Sunday.
Bible class begins at 6:30
p.m. Wednesday.
Adult choir practice
begins at 11 a.m. each Saturday before the first and
fourth Sunday. Youth choir
rehearsal begins at noon
each Saturday before the
first Sunday.
Richard Johnson is pastor.

Shiloh Baptist
Services at Shiloh Bap-

tist Church, 920 Meadow
St., begin at 9:30 a.m. with
Sunday school. Oscar Jones
is superintendent. Communion service begins at 11 a.m.
each third Sunday. Covenant
begins at 10:45 a.m. each
second Sunday.
On Tuesday, Bible study
is 6-7 p.m. Dr. Willie Jones,
pastor, is the instructor.
Choir rehearsal is at 6
p.m. each Tuesday after the
second Sunday.

Shiloh Primitive
Services at Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church, Warriors Trail, begin at 10:30
a.m. with singing, prayers
and a sermon. Holy Communion will be observed. Dinner
is at noon each first and
third Sunday. Elder Charles
Holden is pastor.

Solid Rock Pentecostal
Easter services at Solid
Rock Pentecostal Church,
4945 U.S. 61 North, begin at 10
a.m. with Bill Talbert, pastor,
bringing the message. The
Drama and Hands of Praise
Sign Teams will present a
mini drama, “Resurrection.”
Children’s ministry will host
an egg hunt for ages up to
11. Barbecued dinner will be
served. Evening services are
canceled.
Midweek worship and word
are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
For transportation call 601636-0692.

Southside Baptist
Services at Southside Baptist Church, 95 Baptist Drive,
begin with sunrise service at
7, followed by covered dish
breakfast. Sunday school
is at 9:45, followed by worship at 11 with Greg Clemts,
pastor. Andrew Clemts,
interim song director, and
Jim Bowman, instrumentalist, will lead the music. The
Lord’s Supper will be served
at 5 p.m. All other activities
are canceled.
Call 601-631-0047 or visit
www.southsidebcvicksburg.
com.

Standfield New Life
Services at Standfield New
Life Christian Church, 1404
Lane St., begin at 10 a.m.
with worship.
Maximized Manhood
begins at 5 p.m. each first
and third Sunday.
New membership orientation begins at 2 p.m. each
second and fourth Sunday.
Bible study is at 6 p.m. each
Wednesday.
Angel Food orders are
taken monthly; call 601-6385380.

Temple of
Empowerment
Services at Temple of
Empowerment, 707 Pierce
St., begin at 9 a.m. with worship. Communion is each
first Sunday. Women’s
Sunday is each third Sunday.
Youth Sunday is each fourth
Sunday.
Intercessory prayer begins
at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, followed by Bible study at 7.
Call 601-636-0438. E-mail
thetemplevicksburg@att.net.
G. Tyrone Haggard is pastor
and founder.

Travelers Rest Baptist
Services at Travelers
Rest Baptist Church, 718
Bowmar Ave., begin at 6
a.m. with Easter sunrise
service. Sunday school is
at 9, followed by worship at
10:30. A nursery is available.
Children’s church is available. Music is by the Men of
Purpose.
Deacons meet at 7:30 p.m.
each second Monday. Baptism is at 10 a.m. each first

Triumph
Services at Triumph
Church, 136 Honeysuckle
Lane, begin with prayer at
8:15 and 10:15 a.m. Worship
is at 8:30 and 10:30 with the
sanctuary choir presenting
praise and worship. Mike
Fields, pastor, will bring
a special Easter message.
The service at 10:30 will be
streaming live on www.triumphchurchvicksburg.com.
Kingdom Kids Church and a
teen class are available.
Corporate prayer is at 6
a.m. Tuesday and 6 p.m.
Saturday.
Wednesday services are
as follows: Elevate Your Life
classes, Generate student
ministries and Kingdom Kids
church. All begin at 6:30 p.m.
Choir practice begins at 7:35.
Men’s fraternity meets from
8 until 9:30 a.m. each first
Saturday.

Triumphant Baptist
Services at Triumphant
Baptist Church, 124 Pittman
Road, begin at 8:30 a.m. with
New Sunday Connection/
New Members Transition
Classes at the Kings Empowerment Center. Partners in
Prayer begins at 9:30 a.m. in
the sanctuary, followed by
worship at 10.
Women’s ministry is at 5:30
p.m. Monday in the administration building.
Activities at the Kings
Empowerment Center
include aerobics at 6 p.m.
Monday and Thursday. Bible
study is at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Mass choir rehearsal is at 7
p.m. Thursday at the church.
Elders Bible study is at noon
Friday in the administration
building. Usher/Helps Ministry is at 4 p.m. each fourth
Saturday at the administration building.
For transportation, call 601218-1319, 601-638-8135 or 601638-8108.
The Rev. Dexter Jones is
pastor. Visit www.triumphantchurchvicksburg.org.

Warrenton
Services at Warrenton
Independent Baptist Church,
829 Belva Drive, begin at 8
a.m. with breakfast. Sunday
school is at 10, followed by
worship at 11 with Marvin
E. Curtis Jr., pastor. Communion will be served. A special
“30 Pieces of Silver” offering
will be taken. Evening worship is canceled.
Wednesday prayer meeting
begins at 7 p.m. with Curtis.
Prayer time will follow.
Visit warrentonbaptist.net.

Wayside Apostolic
Services at Wayside Apostolic Church of Deliverance, 4615 Halls Ferry Road,
begin at 10 a.m. with Sunday
school., followed by worship
at 11:30. Evening worship is
at 6.

Wayside Baptist
Services at Wayside Baptist
Church, 6151 Jeff Davis Road,
begin with Sunday school at
9:45 a.m., followed by worship
at 11 with Jason Wooley. Evening worship is canceled.
Wednesday activities are
at 7 p.m.
A nursery is provided
Sunday mornings.

Woodlawn Baptist
Easter Sunrise services for
Woodlawn Baptist Church,
2310 Culkin Road, begin at 7
a.m. at Fort Nogales, followed
by breakfast at 8:30 at the
church. Worship is at 10:30
with the Rev. Kent Campbell,
pastor, bringing the message
combined with special Easter
music by the sanctuary choir.
A nursery is provided for up
to age 3. Evening services are
canceled.
Midweek services are at 10
a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Family night activities begin
at 5 with supper, followed by
children’s activities at 5:40.
Underground Connections
meet at 6. Sanctuary choir
practice is at 7.
Call 601-636-5320.

Word of Faith
Sunday services at Word of
Faith Christian Center, 3525
Wisconsin Ave., begin with
Sunday school at 9:30 a.m.,
followed by worship at 10:30.
Corporate prayer is at 10:15
a.m. Sunday and 6:45 p.m.
Wednesday.
Midweek services and Glorify God Youth Ministry are
Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
Children’s church and
nursery are provided for all
services.
The Rev. Reginald L.
Walker is pastor. Bishop
Kevin E. Wright is founder.
Call 601-638-2500 or www.
wofcc-vicksburg.com.

Zion Travelers M.B.
Services at Zion Travelers
M.B. Church, 1701 Poplar St.,
begin with Sunday school at
9:30 a.m., under the direction
of Virginia Houston, minister
and superintendent. Eddie
James Lee, is deacon and
assistant superintendent.
The following are at 11 a.m.
— Communion each first
Sunday; worship each second
and fourth Sunday; women’s
ministry each third Sunday.
Choir practice is Monday
after the second and fourth
Sunday and Thursday after
the first and third Sunday at
6 p.m.
Tuesday, intercessory
prayer is at 6 p.m.
Prayer meeting is at 5:30
p.m. Wednesday. Bible study
is at 6.
Alfred E. Lassiter Jr. is
pastor.

Late rally sends French Camp past St. Al in Game 1
By Jeff Byrd
jbyrd@vicksburgpost.com

Go green
Celtics top Knicks,
take 3-0 lead in
NBA playoff series/C3

Schedule
PREP BASEBALL

VHS hosts South Panola
Today, 1 p.m.
WC hosts Columbus
Today, 3 p.m.

On TV

Not even a change of dugouts could change St. Aloysius’ late-inning luck.
French Camp struck for
seven runs in the top of the
seventh inning to break a
4-all tie, and went on to post
an 11-4 win in Game 1 of a
first-round Class 1A playoff series Friday at Bazinsky
Field.
The Panthers (9-4) can
close out the series today
at French Camp with Game
2 at 1 p.m. If St. Al (2-18)
can extend the series to a
third game, it will follow

immediately
afterward.
French
Camp will
have plenty
of momentum
as it rocked
Flashes’
ace Judson
Judson
Gatling in the
Gaitling
fateful seventh inning. Justin Anderson
led off with a triple to deadcenter that lit the fuse.
“He (Gatling) was getting
tired and was just throwing
fastballs,” Anderson said.
“We showed we can hit. If we
can keep the bats going, we
can win this.”

Anderson added that Friday’s trip to Vicksburg was
a lot different than the Panthers’ last visit in 2009, when
they were barely a speed
bump on St. Al’s road to the
first of two consecutive Class
1A championships.
“We came here two years
ago, and they were really
good,” Anderson said.
St. Al tried to channel the
spirit of those teams by
moving back into its traditional spot in the first base
dugout. For most of the
season, it stayed on the third
base side for games at Bazinsky Field. The switch did
little to change the Flashes’

luck, though.
Lead runners were cut
down three times between
second and third base and
two others were thrown out
trying to steal second.
“We made so many baserunning mistakes,” interim
St. Al coach Jim Taylor said.
“Actually, about six bad ones.
Three times between second
and on a fourth time, we let
a batted ball hit us. We also
didn’t execute a pair of steals
and got thrown out.”
Still, the Flashes got the
tying run home in the bottom
of the sixth to knot the game
at 4. Andrew Collins led off
with a single, went to second

eagles survive and advance

From staff reports

Who’s hot
JARAD TOMPKINS

Porters
Chapel
catcher went
2-for-4
with two
doubles
and four
RBIs in a
9-7 victory over Wayne
Academy in Game 3 of an
MAIS Class A playoff series on Friday.

Sidelines
NFL not setting
cancellation date

LOTTERY
La. Pick 3: 0-9-8
La. Pick 4: 0-0-9-8
Weekly results: C2

See St. Al, Page C3.

Gates gives
WC lead on
Columbus

5 p.m. ESPN2 - The SEC
baseball weekend rolls
on as Alabama faces
Florida in game two of
a three-game series in
Gainesville.

NEW YORK (AP) — The
NFL hasn’t set a deadline
for when games would
be canceled without a
collective bargaining
agreement.
“We don’t have a date
by which the season is
lost, or a date by which
we have to move from
16 games to some other
(number),” Eric Grubman,
the league’s executive
vice president for business operations, said Friday at a meeting with
Associated Press Sports
Editors. “Our intentions
are to play a full season,
and we will pull every lever that we can within
the flexibility we have or
can identify to make that
happen.”
Even during the lockout, Grubman said, the
NFL and teams are working so they will be ready
to start the season quickly once a deal is reached.
The 2011 schedule
released Tuesday has
games beginning Sept. 8,
but includes some room
to maneuver. The NFL
could still squeeze in 16
games with a delayed
start by eliminating bye
weeks and the week between the conference
championships and the
Super Bowl. The league
also has a deal with host
Indianapolis to potentially hold the Super Bowl a
week later.

on a wild pitch and then to
third on an error. Collins
scored when an easy line
drive was dropped at second.
French Camp quickly
made up for the mistakes
following Anderson’s leadoff triple. Hagan Box got his
fourth hit of the game with
a single to left to make it 5-4.
Grady Henderson singled to
put runners on second and
third. After a strikeout, three
straight batters singled just
over or past St. Al infielders.
Four more runs came in and
it was suddenly 9-4. The lead
grew to 11-4 before Taylor

Boyd’s baserunning leads to PCA victory
By Ernest Bowker
ebowker@vicksburgpost.com
Jake Boyd’s coach called it
the dumbest thing he’d ever
seen. Boyd said it was the
smartest.
Based on the results, Boyd
was correct.
Boyd, noticing a lapse in
concentration among Wayne
Academy’s fielders, stole
third and then scored the goahead run when the throw
skipped into left field. His
Porters Chapel teammates
later tacked on an insurance
run, and the Eagles were
able to escape their firstround MAIS Class A playoff
series with a 9-7 victory in
Game 3 Friday.
“All I do is baserunning. I
don’t play the field or nothing. I told coach use my
speed and I’ll help the team
any way I can,” said Boyd, a
senior who often comes in
the game as a baserunner
but rarely plays the field or
bats. “All I do in the dugout
is play over situations in my
head, and they gave me the
situation I wanted.”
PCA lost Game 2 earlier
Friday, 5-2, but thanks to
Boyd’s heroics were able
to advance to the second
round to face either University Christian or Heidelberg
Academy. That series will
start Tuesday.
After dropping the second
game of the series — played
as the first half of a doubleheader — the Eagles were
on the ropes in the decisive

Game 3.
Wayne Academy (12-8)
scored seven unearned runs
in the game, including four
in the fifth inning. Pitcher
Richie Bufkin made a wild
throw to first on a basesloaded grounder, then the
throw back to the infield
was also off line. Three runs
scored and the batter, Colby
Stevens, later scored on
another misplayed grounder
to put the Jaguars ahead 7-6.
In the bottom of the sixth,
it was PCA’s turn to take
advantage of a mistake.
Jeff Hearn and Jarad Tomp-

Today’s games
1 p.m. - St. Aloysius at
French Camp
1 p.m. - South Panola at
Vicksburg
3 p.m. - Columbus at WC
kins started the inning with
back-to-back doubles to
tie the game. Boyd entered
as a courtesy runner for
Tompkins, the catcher, and
dealt with a couple of pickoff throws to second before
noticing a flaw in Wayne’s
tactics.
“At the time I was looking
when he threw me back, I
saw he was looking for the
coach for the sign, and the
catcher looked for the sign.
And the third baseman just
wasn’t paying attention,”
Boyd said. “I kept watching
that and he tried to throw me

out again. I said ‘I’m sick of
this. As soon as he pitches,
I’m gone.’”
Boyd broke for third before
pitcher Brett Chancellor even
started his motion to the
plate. He slid in safely, then
jumped up and dashed home
when the ball got away from
the third baseman.
The run put PCA ahead
8-7, and they went on to add
another with a hit, walk and
perfect RBI bunt single by
Cameron Upton.
Bourne didn’t call for Boyd
to steal third on the pivotal
play, but said he was happy
with the results.
“He saw an opportunity
that I didn’t see. I can’t be
that upset when it worked
out like it did,” Bourne said
with a laugh. “Jake’s a smart
baserunner. He’s not going
to do something unless he’s
about a hundred percent
sure it’s going to work.”
Ace right-hander Montana
McDaniel entered the game
in the seventh and shut the
Jaguars down in order to end
the game.
“It was down to the wire.
We once again showed a little
resilience there,” Bourne
said. “I challenged them
and told them do what you
have to do to win this game
because I really don’t want to
play a bottom of the seventh.
My seniors stepped up.”
The series was sent to
the final game after Wayne
scored four runs in the top of
See PCA, Page C3.

With a little power
from an unlikely source,
Warren Central got a leg
up in its first-round playoff
series with Columbus.
Outfielder Brandon
Gates belted his first home
run of the season, a tiebreaking
solo shot
in the fifth
inning, to
give the
Vikings a
6-5 victory
in Game 1
of a firstJosh
round
Abraham
Class
6A playoff series
Friday
night.
“He got a
fastball and
he turned
on it pretty
good,”
Brandon
Warren
Gates
Central
coach Josh
Abraham said. “He’s not
a power guy, he’s a gap
hitter. It was a line drive
that hooked just inside the
left field foul pole.”
The win puts the Vikings
ahead 1-0 in the best-ofthree series. Game 2 will
be played today at 3 p.m.
at Warren Central, and if a
Game 3 is necessary it will
be played as the second
half of a doubleheader
immediately afterward.
“It feels good to make
the long trip and beat a
team and have Game 2 at
home,” Abraham said.
Game 1 featured plenty
of offense early on.
Warren Central scored
twice in the top of the first,
only to see Columbus take
a 3-2 lead in the bottom
half. The Vikings then
scored three times in the
second inning, but Columbus tied it with two runs in
the fourth.
Finally, Gates’ homer
snapped the stalemate and
put the Vikings ahead for
good.
Bill McRight went 2-for-3
for Warren Central.
Junior right-hander
Chase Ladd pitched three
innings to get the win,
while starter Devon Bell
went four innings. Abraham said his team should
have most of its pitchers
ready for today if they’re
needed.
“The only one we really
won’t have is Devon. He
threw a lot of pitches,”
Abraham said.

College basketball
Larranaga leaves
George Mason for Miami
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Jim
Larranaga has taken the Miami
Hurricanes’ basketball job after 14
years at George Mason, including
an improbable run to the Final Four
in 2006.
Larranaga called George Mason
athletic director Tom O’Connor on
Friday morning to say he accepted
Miami’s offer. The Hurricanes held
an evening news conference to
introduce their new coach, who
replaces Frank Haith.
“I started thinking about my own
career, where I am and what goals
have I not been able to accomplish
during the course of my 40-year
career in coaching,” said Larranaga, who also coached at Bowling Green and Division II American International. “One thing kept
coming back in my mind, that I’d
love to coach in the ACC.
Larranaga, 61, led the Patriots
to five NCAA Tournament berths
and went 273-164, setting a school
record for victories. This season
his team went 27-7 and reached
the third round of the tournament
before losing to Ohio State.
Larranaga helped the Patriots win
three titles in the Colonial Athletic
Association. Now he moves to the
Atlantic Coast Conference, where
the Hurricanes were 43-69 the past
seven seasons under Haith.

flashback

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 23
1950 — The Minneapolis Lakers
become the first team to win backto-back NBA championships by
defeating the Syracuse Nationals 110-95 in Game 6 of the finals.
George Mikan leads the Lakers
with 40 points in a game marred by
three fights, four Minneapolis players fouling out, and Nats coach Al
Cervi being ejected for complaining
about a call.
1993 — The Dallas Mavericks
avoid matching the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers as the worst team in
NBA history, beating Minnesota
103-100 for their 10th triumph of the
season.
1999 — Fernando Tatis hits two
grand slams in one inning to lead
the St. Louis Cardinals to a 12-5 win
over Los Angeles. Tatis becomes
the first player in major league history to hit two grand slams in one
inning and set the record with eight
RBIs in an inning.
2008 — The Chicago Cubs win
their 10,000th game, joining the
Giants as the only franchise to
reach that mark with a 7-6 victory
in 10 innings at Colorado.

American League
LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Placed RHP Scott
Downs on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 14.
Recalled RHP Trevor Bell from Salt Lake City
(PCL).
NEW YORK YANKEES—Selected the contract of
RHP Buddy Carlyle from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
(IL). Optioned RHP Hector Noesi to Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre. Designated LHP Jose Ortegano for
assignment.
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES—Recalled RHP Cory Gearrin
from Gwinnett (IL). Optioned OF Matt Young to
Gwinnett.
FLORIDA MARLINS—Recalled INF Ozzie Martinez from New Orleans (PCL).
LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Activated RHP
Vicente Padilla from the 15-day DL.
NEW YORK METS—Placed OF Angel Pagan on
the 15-Day DL. Selected the contract of OF Jason
Pridie from Buffalo (IL).
PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Claimed INF Brandon
Wood off waivers from the Los Angeles Angels.
Designated INF Josh Rodriguez for assignment.
Recalled INF Pedro Ciriaco from Indianapolis (IL).

HOCKEY

National Hockey League
NHL—Fined Boston D Andrew Ference $2,500 for
an obscene gesture made during an April 21 game
4 at Montreal.
LOS ANGELES KINGS—Activated LW Scott
Parse from injured reserve.
PHOENIX COYOTES—Signed F Brett Hextall to
an entry-level contract.

South Carolina kept the pressure on all night and steadily
pulled away from Mississippi State, winning 8-2 in the
opener of a three-game series
in Starkville.
Christian Walker went
4-for-5 and scored two runs
for South Carolina, while
Peter Mooney, Evan Marzilli
and Robert Beary drove in two
runs apiece.
Although they never scored
more than two runs in any
inning, the Gamecocks scored
in six different frames.
Jonathan Ogden hit a solo
home run for Mississippi State
(23-15, 6-10 Southeastern Conference) in the second inning
to cut it to 3-2. Marzilli hit a
two-run homer to right in the
fourth inning, however, and
South Carolina added single
runs in the fifth, sixth and
ninth.
Michael Roth allowed two
runs, one earned, in 6 1/3
innings for South Carolina
(30-7, 13-3). He walked three
and struck out four.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roth is a very good pitcher
who had command of all three
of his pitches. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have
good at-bats against him,â&#x20AC;?
Mississippi State coach John
Cohen said.
The associated press

The Boston Celticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kevin Garnett (5) exchanges words with New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Amare Stoudemire
during the first half of Game 3 of a first-round NBA playoff series Friday.

Hawks 88, Magic 84
Jamal Crawford banked in a
3-pointer with 5.7 seconds left
to cap a brilliant second half,
leading the Atlanta Hawks
over the Orlando Magic for
a 2-1 lead in their first-round
Eastern Conference playoff
series.
The Hawks led most of the
game, but things got close and
testy in the final minutes.
Zaza Pachulia of Atlanta and
Jason Richardson of Orlando
were both ejected with 2:22
remaining after a confrontation under the basket. The
teams swapped the lead four
times after that near-brawl
until Al Horford put the
Hawks ahead for good with
46.6 seconds remaining.
But Crawford, who scored
18 of his 23 points after halftime, hit the biggest shot of
all. With the shot clock wind-

ing down, he put up a jumper
over Jameer Nelson that
struck high on the backboard
and went in.
Game 4 is Sunday night.
The physical game turned
ugly when Dwight Howard
drove the lane and was hammered by Pachulia, who took
on the thankless job of guarding Orlandoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big man after
Jason Collins went out with a
back injury in the first half.
Howard swung a forearm,
Pachulia flung an elbow, then
Richardson charged into
Pachuliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face. As they jawed,
Pachulia appeared to deliver
at least one headbutt to Richardson, who responded by
slapping Pachulia in the jaw
with his left hand.
After looking at replays to
sort things out, the officials
ejected both Pachulia and
Richardson and gave Howard
a technical, too. Pachulia, with
two long scratches on his

upper right arm, was given a
standing ovation on his way to
the locker room.
With order restored, Nelson
put the Magic ahead at 82-81
with a jumper after stealing an extra possession for
the Magic, coming up from
behind to strip the ball from
Crawford.
Joe Johnson responded
for Atlanta, driving the lane,
drawing a foul on Howard and
hitting both free throws to put
the Hawks up 83-82. The Magic
pulled ahead for the final time
when Brandon Bass swished
an open jumper with 1:01
remaining after Hedo Turkoglu dribbled around to lure
away the defense.
Horford put the Hawks ahead
to stay, Turkoglu missed a
tough jumper from near the
3-point line with Horford in his
face and Crawford made his
improbable 3 to clinch it.

PCA

Ole Miss opened up a big
lead on Auburn, then survived
a scare in the ninth to even
the weekend series at a game
apiece.
Bobby Wahl picked up his
third save of the season for
Ole Miss by pitching the last
1 1/3 innings. He entered with
a runner on first and two outs
in the eighth and got the last
four outs via strikeouts. He
also walked a batter.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bobby was certainly clutch
for us tonight,â&#x20AC;? Ole Miss coach
Mike Bianco said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We saw
it last weekend and it was
more of the same stuff from
him tonight. Coming into the
game on the road in the SEC
with people on base, he did a
terrific job.â&#x20AC;?
Ole Miss scored a ton of runs
early, taking an 8-2 lead after
just four innings. The Rebels
(24-16, 9-8 SEC) led 10-4 after
seven, but Auburn scored
three times in the eighth
before Wahl slammed the
door.
Matt Snyder hit a three-run

Adam
Doleac

Bobby
Wahl

homer for Ole Miss in the third
inning, Matt Smith had three
hits and Alex Yarbrough was
2-for-4 with two RBIs and two
runs scored.
Casey McElroy was 2-for-3
with two RBIs for Auburn.

USM 8, Marshall 7
Adam Doleac singled in the
go-ahead run in the seventh
inning, and Southern Miss
held on in the ninth to beat
Marshall.
Doleacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s base hit put Southern Miss ahead 6-5, and two
more runs scored on a passed
ball and a wild pitch. Marshall, though, cut it to 8-7 in
the ninth on an RBI double
by Victor Gomez and an RBI
single by James Lavinskas.
Finally, Southern Miss
escaped the jam when Collin
Cargill got Gray Stafford to
ground into a game-ending
double play with the tying run
on second base.
Tyler Koelling and Isaac
Rodriguez had two hits apiece
for Southern Miss (28-9, 7-3
Conference USA), while Victor
Ramos went 4-for-4 with a
double and an RBI for Marshall (15-21, 2-8).
The last two games of the
series will be played as a doubleheader today in Hattiesburg, beginning at 2 p.m.

Vanderbilt 11, LSU 3
Sonny Gray threw seven
strong innings and Mike Yastrzemski drove in three runs
to lead Vanderbilt (33-5, 12-4
SEC) past LSU (24-15, 4-12).
Gray (8-2) allowed five hits
and four walks, and struck
out seven in seven innings to
get the win. Yastrzemski was
2-for-5 with a double, three
RBIs and two runs scored.
Vanderbilt catcher Curt Casali
added three hits and two RBIs,
while Jason Esposito hit a tworun triple.

St. Al
Continued from Page C1.
finally pulled Gatling following Andersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second at-bat
of the inning.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t communicating out there,â&#x20AC;? Taylor said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were throwing the ball
too much and just gave them
runs. Once they got up five
or so runs, it was out of reach
for us.â&#x20AC;?

Ole Miss 10, Auburn 7

college
baseball

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the fifth inning to take Game
2. Again, an error with two
outs allowed the Jaguars to
extend the inning. Two walks
followed before Zack Freeman cleared the bases with a
double down the left field line
to make it a 5-0 game.
PCA got a run back in the
bottom of the fifth on an RBI
single from Stephen Purvis
and another in the sixth on
an RBI single by Upton, but
left the bases loaded in both
innings.
The lack of run support
made a hard-luck loser out
of Talbot Buys, who pitched
well in defeat. The big righthander went seven innings
and struck out five. He did
walk seven batters, but only
allowed three hits.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is good to win when you
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have your best stuff,â&#x20AC;?
Bourne said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The pitching
was great, I thought. Talbot
threw very well. Threw 94
pitches, gave up three hits
and loses 5-2. Our defense is
what was shaky, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
got to fix that.â&#x20AC;?

South Carolina stymies
MSU in series opener
From staff reports

By The Associated Press
No fantastic finish needed for
the Boston Celtics this time.
They simply spoiled Madison Square Gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s postseason homecoming party right
from the start.
Paul Pierce scored 38 points,
Ray Allen added 32, and Rajon
Rondo had a Celticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; playoffrecord 20 assists as Boston
beat the New York Knicks
113-96 on Friday night to take
a 3-0 lead in their first-round
playoff series.
Rondo had 15 points and 11
rebounds for the Celtics, who
pulled out two close games
in Boston but never trailed
in this one, dominating the
first playoff game at Madison Square Garden in seven
years. They will go for the
sweep Sunday afternoon, and
no NBA team has ever lost a
series after winning the first
three games.
After winning the two games
in Boston despite trailing in
the final half-minute of both,
the Celtics scored the first
nine points of this one and
never really let it get much
closer.
Carmelo Anthony had 15
points and 11 rebounds but
shot 4-for-16 for the Knicks,
who were hosting a playoff
game for the first time since
2004. But the Celtics left the
fans little to cheer about, and
the Knicks were even booed as
they walked off the court trailing by 23 points after three
quarters.
Exactly 10 years to the day
since their last home playoff victory, the Knicks were
outclassed in the same way
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been so many times in
that forgettable decade.
With Chauncey Billups sidelined again with a knee injury,
Amare Stoudemire limited by
his back spasms and Anthony
unable to duplicate his 42-point
performance from Game 2, the
Knicks lacked the firepower to
match the defending Eastern
Conference champions.
Stoudemire was just 2-for-8
for seven points.
Allen, who made the goahead 3-pointer in the Celticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
87-85 victory in Game 1, was
8-for-11 behind the arc and is a
sizzling 15-for-20 in the series.
Pierce was 6-of-8 from 3-point
range as Rondo continuously
set up his two All-Star wing
players for open shots.

C3

St. Al played well early.
Carlisle Koestler had a tworun single in the second
inning to make it 3-0 in favor
of the Flashes.
French Camp made it 3-2
with a two-run homer to left
by Brad Palmertree. Box tied
the game at 3 with his third
hit that scored Anderson. He

later scored for a 4-3 lead off
a sacrifice fly by Palmertree.
French Camp finished with
15 hits off Gatling, who went
6 2/3 innings. He struck out
seven and walked none.
Box was 4-for-5 while
Anderson was 3-for-5.
Ben Hoslet and Braden
McGlothin had two hits and

Palmertree drove in three
runs.
Cole Henson went all seven
innings to grab the win for
the Panthers. He scattered
nine hits.
Koestler, Matt Foley, Neal
Ricks and Collins all had two
hits for St. Al.

C4

Saturday, April 23, 2011

TONIGHT ON TV
n MOVIE
“Cinema Verite” — In the
1970s Bill Loud, Tim Robbins,
and his wife, Pat and Diane
Lane, allow cameras to film
their personal lives for the PBS
series “An American Family.’’/8
on HBO
n SPORTS
MLB — The Atlanta Braves
hope to right the ship on a
sinking West Coast swing as
they take on the defending
champion San Francisco Giants./3 on Fox
n PRIMETIME
“Chase” — A corrupt cop preys Tim Robbins
on single mothers in hope of
getting close to their young
daughters; an internal investigation could indict Marco and Jimmy./7 on NBC

MILESTONES
n BIRTHDAYS
Shirley Temple Black, actress-turned-diplomat, 83; David Birney, actor, 72; Lee Majors, actor, 72; Paul Brickman, writer-director, 62; Joyce DeWitt, actress, 62; Michael Moore, filmmaker-author, 57; Jan Hooks, actress, 54; Valerie Bertinelli, actress,
51; George Lopez, actor, 50; Kal Penn, actor, 34; Dev Patel, actor, 21.
n DEATH
Kevin Jarre — The man who wrote the screenplays for the
movies “Glory” and “Tombstone” has died. His aunt, Patty Briley
Bean, said that Jarre, 56, died unexpectedly of heart failure on
April 3 at his Santa Monica, Calif., home. Jarre was a history buff
who was entranced by the Civil War since childhood, when he’d
received toy soldiers for Christmas. His research on a black regiment led him to write the 1989 movie “Glory,” which won three
Academy Awards, including one for actor Denzel Washington.
His 1993 “Tombstone,” about the shootout at the OK Corral, got
mixed reviews but was a hit. Jarre also co-wrote “Rambo: First
Blood Part II,”“The Devil’s Own” and “The Mummy.” He was the
adopted son of Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre.

peopLE

Bilson, Lagerfeld team up for ice cream
Almost anyone interested in
fashion would do anything to
work with designer Karl Lagerfeld, even if it’s for an ice cream
commercial.
Rachel Bilson jumped at the
chance to star in a three-part
short film series directed by the
legendary Chanel designer for
Magnum ice cream, which is
launching in the United States.
“I was like, I’m working with
Rachel Bilson and Karl
Karl Lagerfeld. I could be doing
Lagerfeld
something, like, really ridiculous and in, like, a big clown suit. It wouldn’t matter,” she said.
Bilson, 29, best known for her role on “The OC,” has also gained
recognition for her sense of style and writes a column about
fashion for In Style magazine. For Thursday night’s premiere for
the ads at the Tribeca Film Festival, she wore a Chanel dress and
carried a Chanel clutch.
“I was very young when I knew that I was into fashion,“ Bilson
said. She said she insisted on picking her own outfits at the age
of 2.
“It was a young marriage between me and clothing,” she
joked.
For the ads, Bilson was the right actress, Lagerfeld said.
“Rachel is great, you know,“ he said. ”She’s a very good actress.
She can play with her face without even saying one word. It was
an easy job. The company told her what they wanted and the
spirit and she adapted.”
Bilson recently shot a TV pilot, “Hart of Dixie,” for the CW network. The show’s executive producer is Josh Schwartz, who created “The OC.” The CW hasn’t announced yet whether the show
will be picked up for the 2011 fall TV season.

Pharrell struggles to be eco-conscious
Pharrell might be involved with the textile company Return Textiles — which creates
clothes from recycled bottles — but he said his
intention isn’t to be eco-friendly.
The rapper-producer told The Associated Press
on Thursday that he wasn’t eco-conscious growing up and still isn’t.
And while the company is an eco-friendly one,
Pharrell said its main goal is to make quality
Pharrell
products.
He said he “hates to put so much emphasis on the recycling
part of it.” Pharrell says because the company uses recycled bottles, the sustainability becomes “an added value.”

ANd one more

Cabbie drives across U.S. — for $5,000
A New York City cab driver has racked up the fare of a lifetime.
Mohammed Alam is being paid $5,000 to drive a pair of
friends to Los Angeles. The trio left Saturday night and had
reached Las Vegas by Thursday.
Investment banker John Belitsky, of Leonia, N.J., said that the
idea was hatched during a birthday celebration for Dan Wuebben of Queens.
Belitsky said they wanted to do something “magical.” When
they decided on a cab ride to California, they found Alam at LaGuardia Airport and brokered the deal.
The two friends haven’t decided how they’ll get back yet. As
for the cab driver, he said a friend will meet him in Los Angeles
and help him make the drive home.

The Vicksburg Post

Teen girl is having a snit over how clothes fit
Dear Abby: I have a huge
problem. I am 13, and my
mom makes me buy clothes
a size larger than what I need
or want. I wear a size 0 pant
and my closet is filled with 2’s.
Mom likes her clothing loose,
but I don’t like mine to fit that
way. She claims she buys my
clothes big so I can “grow into
them.” But how much am I
going to grow at this age?
I don’t like the way these
clothes fit, and it seems like a
waste of money because I like
expensive things. Mom bought
me tops a year ago that are
just beginning to fit me now.
She doesn’t like shopping very
much, and this disagreement
makes it harder for both of
us. I’ve tried talking to her.
Please help, Abby. — Loose
and Baggy in San Francisco
Dear Loose and Baggy:
At age 13 it’s entirely within
the realm of possibility that
you haven’t yet achieved
full growth. If the tops your
mother bought a year ago
are just beginning to fit you
now, it’s because although you

DEAR
ABBY
ABIGAIL

VAN
BUREN

might not have grown taller,
you are beginning to fill out.
That might very well continue
to happen with the rest of your
figure over the next couple of
years — or sooner.
While you and your mother
might never have the same
fashion taste, please trust her
judgment for now. She has
your best interests at heart.
Dear Abby: I don’t like my
25-year-old daughter’s fiance.
He never went to college,
works a low-paying job and
doesn’t know how to manage
money. He floats through life
and doesn’t appear to have
any goals. I have raised these
issues with my daughter in
the past, but she didn’t want
to hear it.

I know I can’t choose her
husband, and she’s free to
make her own choices. My
problem is, I don’t want to
plan the wedding. Every time
I think about planning it, my
heart aches and my stomach
sinks. There is no excitement
for my daughter. What should
I do? Fake it, or level with her
about not wanting to be a part
of this? — Anxious and Worried in the South
Dear Anxious: Your daughter already knows how you
feel about her fiance. When
parents plan and/or pay for
a wedding it is a gift, not a
requirement. At 25, your
daughter is old enough — and
should be independent enough
— to plan (and pay) for it with
her fiance. It will be good practice for what lies ahead after
her trip to the altar.
Dear Abby: I volunteer with
a support group and have
fallen for one of the members.
I’m certain she doesn’t know
my feelings. I have respected
her right to pursue the support she sought without the

complication of romance.
I have been resigned to the
fact that an extraordinary
woman has simply crossed my
path under the wrong circumstances. However, a trusted
friend has suggested that special people come only rarely
into our lives and that I should
consider leaving my role as
facilitator to pursue her. I’m
now struggling over what to
do. I find great satisfaction in
my volunteer work, but am
drawn to this woman. — Torn
Between Two Desires
Dear Torn: If you approach
the woman while she’s a
member of your group, it
could be considered a breach
of ethics. Therefore it might
be better if you wait until she
is strong enough to leave the
group before you approach her
for a personal relationship.

•
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van
Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips,
and was founded by her mother, Pauline
Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear
Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles,
CA 90069.

Readers question advice on shingles vaccine
Dear Dr. Gott: I just took
the shingles vaccine at a local
drugstore. I filled out papers
but nowhere did it mention
that anyone who had a history
of cancer should not take the
vaccine. Please advise.
Dear Dr. Gott: In your
recent column, you said that
the shingles vaccine should
not be given to former cancer
patients. I am in remission from large B cell nonHodgkin’s lymphoma. I have
Wegener’s granulomatosis,
which although in remission,
is still there. The Wegener’s is
the reason that a shingles vaccine is recommended. I will be
having CD19 level blood testing before any vaccination, but
with my history, should I still
have the vaccine?
Dear Dr. Gott: My doctor
recommended the vaccine for
me; however, I am reluctant
to get it. My concern is that I
understand the vaccine is formulated with live virus and
my white blood count is below
normal. Neither my doctor nor
a pharmacist was able to comment on this.

ASK
THE
DOCTOR
Dr. PETER

GOTT

Dear Dr. Gott: I am 65 now
and I had ovarian cancer 25
years ago with chemotherapy
on weekends once a month
for a year. Your article said
I shouldn’t have the vaccine
because I had cancer. Does this
hold true for me even though I
had cancer so long ago? Also, I
can’t remember if I had chickenpox. Please advise.
Dear Dr. Gott: I am a white
male, age 58 1/2. I had chickenpox as a child and suffered with a classic case of
shingles in February 2010. I
received a prescription at a
cost of about $300 for 21 pills,
seven days’ worth, that helped
tremendously.
I asked my doctor at that
time about the vaccine, and
he said he had not studied the
vaccine enough yet, as it was

TWEEN 12 & 20

BY DR. ROBERT WALLACE • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION
Dr. Wallace: Is it worse to smoke marijuana or drink alcohol?
My parents and I always argue about this because they call
themselves social drinkers, and that’s supposed to be all right. I
call myself a “social smoker,” but it’s considered bad in their eyes.
— Nameless, Rochester, Minn.
Nameless: I’m not defending your parents’ social drinking
habit, but it is legal to consume alcoholic beverages and illegal
to mess with marijuana. Both alcohol and pot can cause intoxication. Alcohol can become physically addictive while marijuana can’t — but it can be psychologically addictive. Chemicals from a single marijuana cigarette can remain in the human
body for as long as a month.
The main chemical in marijuana, THC, likes to hide in fat. This
means it can be stored in the body for long periods of time in
areas of high-fat content, such as the lungs, brain and reproductive organs. These are the areas most affected by marijuana use.
Alcohol, which is water-soluble, leaves the body within a few
hours.
Instead of arguing which unhealthy habit is worse, why don’t
you and your parents decide to give up both of them? The
money saved, which can be considerable, could be used for a
family adventure, such as a trip to Hawaii during the cold northern winter or a camping expedition to the beautiful Minnesota
wilderness during spring, summer or fall.
•
Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley
News Service.

new in February 2010. Could
you please enlighten me about
new information regarding
this vaccine or where to go
for new information about it
because I don’t want the discomfort again?
Dear Readers: Thank you
all for writing. When I wrote
this article, I acquired the
information from reputable
sources to include the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention that specifically
indicates people with a weakened immune system because
of HIV/AIDS or another disease that affects the immune
system, treatment with drugs
that affect the immune system,
cancer treatment such as radiation or chemotherapy, a history of cancer affecting the
bone marrow or lymphatic
system such as leukemia or
lymphoma and women who
are or might be pregnant
should not get the vaccine.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration mirrors this
and states conditions such
as cancer of the lymph, bone
or blood and those with a

weakened immune system
caused by treatments such
as radiation should not be
immunized.
Drugs.com indicates if a
person has leukemia or lymphoma (or other cancer affecting bone marrow) or a weakened immune system caused
by disease or by receiving
medication such as steroids
or chemotherapy, he or she
should not take the vaccine.
The Mayo Clinic indicates the
vaccine isn’t recommended
if a person has a weakened
immune system due to HIV/
AIDs, lymphoma or leukemia
or is receiving immune system-suppressing drugs such
as steroids, radiation or chemotherapy and more.
The website www.Zostavax.
com indicates that patients
should not get the vaccine if
they have a weakened immune
system.
Therefore, I stand by my
original March statement.

BY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION
If tomorrow is your birthday: A couple of big-ticket
items you’ve wanted for a
long time but could not afford, will be within your reach
in the year ahead.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) —
Certain objectives you want
to tackle will be achievable,
but they might not necessarily fit in with your other plans.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) —
You have a wonderful imagination, but it can work against
you as easily as it works for
you.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) —
Someone with whom you’ll
spend your day might not
want to take part in everything you’d like to do. Take
care not to dwell only on your
wants, and consider this person’s desires as well.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — In
order to get along with your
companions, you might have
to make some rather large
concessions. It’s up to you to
make sure it is not merely a
one-man show by being cooperative.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — If
it takes accepting responsibility for the mistakes of others
in order to get things rolling,
then you should do so.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) —
Some kind of deal that you’ve
made with others that presently looks like a bummer can
be constructively adjusted.
You might not get all that you
want, but you’ll still come out
OK.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
— Unless you are cognizant
of the needs of everybody
with whom you’re involved,
you could be accused of being selfish. Don’t focus on just
yourself.
Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)
— Should you unintentionally say something that a friend
finds offensive, don’t try to get
off with an excuse.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
— Although this might be
a day of rest for most, it behooves you to use your time

constructively. Either get
caught up on old, neglected
chores or get a head start on
next week’s duties.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
— Be flexible when dealing
with others, or adverse results
could easily be the order of
the day.
Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) —
Even though you’ll have your

share of ups and downs, in the
final analysis things in general
should work out rather well
for you. Remain optimistic.
Aries (March 21-April 19) —
Something fun to do might
pop up that you’ll want to be
part of. The only problem is
the activity could be more expensive than what you want
to pay.

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setting deadlines; assigning responsibilities; tracking progress; identifying,
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and resource constraint related problems; summarizing and communicating the
status of the project.

Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering
• 5 years minimum relative experience in petroleum, ethanol, or
biochemical industries.
• 5 years experience in conceptual development, design and implementation,
planning and scheduling, and project management of major
capital projects with a total project budget of greater than $100 million.
• Experience in environmental and construction permitting.
• Experience communicating and collaborating at a variety of levels with
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• Possess strong leadership and communication skills, work well in a team
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• Experience at managing multi disciplined technical staff and experience
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TIm McGraw
back in
saddle with
his hat on
By The Associated Press
NASHVILLE — Tim
McGraw has his music hat
on again.
After more than a year
of appearances without his signature black
cowboy hat while promoting movies “The
Blind Side” and “Country
Strong,” McGraw is back
to focusing on music for a
while. He has recorded a
new album, launched his
own SiriusXM channel,
“Tim McGraw Radio,” and
just kicked off his “Emotional Traffic” tour, which
will include a special
Sirius concert next week
in New York City.
“It’s sort of like a cape,”
he said of his hat. “I just
don’t feel the same without it.”
He’ll need whatever
superpower the hat might
give him as he faces one
last showdown with his
label, Curb Records.
McGraw said his upcoming “Emotional Traffic”
album would be his “absolute last album” with Curb
if it kills him, and though
he finished the album in
the fall, there is still no
release date.
“All the songs have been
done for a long time, and
the label has had it. It’s
the last album that they
have of mine, so they’re
trying to hold on to it as
long as they can,” he said.
“Whenever Mike Curb
decides he’s going to play
fair, it will be out.”
No one from Curb
Records, including label
chief Mike Curb, was
available for comment.
McGraw and his label of
nearly 20 years have been
publicly at odds for years
now. McGraw claims the
label is dragging out his
contract and depriving
his fans of new music by
releasing hit albums in
between each of his last
three studio albums. He
issued an apology to fans
in 2008 when the label
released “Greatest Hits 3,”
saying, “It has to be just
as confusing to the fans as
it is to me.”
The label put out
another compilation in
November, “Number One
Hits,” with one new song
from the upcoming studio
album, “Felt Good On My
Lips.” It became a multiweek No. 1.
McGraw said the SiriusXM channel will include
all his hits dating back to
1994’s “Indian Outlaw” as
well as songs he’s forgotten he even recorded. He
also picked his favorite
tunes by other artists that
will be sprinkled into the
mix.
Fans will also be treated
to his laid-back charm and
stories.

The associated press

Annie Murphy, director of the Framingham, Mass., History Center, points out the grave marker for
George H. Gordon, a little-known Union Civil War general.

North aims to get in touch

with its Civil War side

By The Associated Press
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
— The gravesite of a Union
Army major general sits
largely forgotten in a small
cemetery along the Massachusetts Turnpike.
A piece of the coat worn by
President Abraham Lincoln
when he was assassinated
rests quietly in a library
attic in a Boston suburb. It’s
shown upon request, a rare
occurrence.
A monument honoring one
of the first official Civil War
black units stands in a busy
intersection in front of the
Massachusetts Statehouse,
barely gaining notice from
the hustle of tourists and
workers who pass each day.
As the nation marks the
150th anniversary of the Civil
War, states in the old South
— the side that lost — are
hosting elaborate re-enactments, intricate memorials, even formal galas highlighting the war’s persistent
legacy in the region. But for
many states in the North
— the side that won — only
scant, smaller events are
planned in an area of the
nation that helped spark the
conflict but now, historians
say, struggles to acknowledge it.
“It’s almost like it never
happened,” said Annie
Murphy, executive director of the Framingham History Center in Framingham,
Mass. “But all you have to do
is look around and see evidence that it did. It’s just that

Online

A list of 150th anniversary
events may be found at:
• Mississippi Sesquicentennial of the American
Civil War Commission
— www.mscivilwar150.
com.
• Civil War Trust — www.
civilwar.org/150th-anniversary.

A Union soldier stands guard as a repairman works at the Framingham History Center.
people aren’t looking here.”
Massachusetts, a state that
sent more than 150,000 men
to battle and was home to
some of the nation’s most
radical abolitionists, created a Civil War commemoration commission earlier
this month. Aging monuments stand unattended,
sometimes even vandalized. Sites of major historical events related to the war
remain largely unknown and
often compete with the more
regionally popular American
Revolution attractions.
Meanwhile many states not
only established commissions months, if not years

ago, but also have ambitious plans for remembrance
around well-known tourist
sites and events. In South
Carolina, for example, 300
Civil War re-enactors participated last week in well-organized staged battles to mark
the beginning of the war.
And, in Vicksburg, events
are planned to mark the 1863
Union siege of the city.
To be sure, some Northern
states have Civil War events
planned and have formed
commemoration commissions. Connecticut’s 150th
Civil War Commemoration was set up in 2008 and
has scheduled a number of

events and exhibits until
2015. Vermont, the first state
to outlaw slavery, started a
similar commission last year
to coordinate activities statewide and in towns.
And some Massachusetts
small nonprofit and historic
groups are trying to spark
interest through research,
planned tours and town
events.
But observers say those
events pale in comparison to
those in the South.
That difference highlights
Northern states’ long struggle with how to remember a war that was largely
fought on Southern soil, said

Steven Mintz, a Columbia
University history professor and author of “Moralists
and Modernizers: America’s
Pre-Civil War Reformers.”
For Northern states such as
Massachusetts, Mintz said
revisiting the Civil War also
means revisiting their own
unsolved, uncomfortable
issues like racial inequality
after slavery.
“We’ve spent a century and
a half turning (the war) into
a gigantic North-South football game in which everybody was a hero,” Mintz said.
“In other words, we depoliticized the whole meaning of
the war. And insofar as it was
captured, it was captured
by the descendants of the
Confederates.”
Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group open to male
descendants of veterans
who served in the Confederate armed forces, boasts
30,000 members across the
See North, Page D3.

The Home Front: Guide touts unknowns
By The Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.
— There are battlefields, and
then there’s Belle Boyd, teenage temptress and Confederate spy.
The Appalachian Regional
Commission is betting Boyd
is the sexier Civil War story
and that tourists will want
to visit the Martinsburg,
W.Va., home of the notorious “siren of the South” who
used her feminine charms to
spy on Union soldiers for the
Confederacy.
The Belle Boyd House in
the Eastern Panhandle is
one of 150 lesser-known
Civil War destinations the

Online

• The Home Front —
www.visitappalachia.
com
commission is highlighting
on The Home Front, a new
13-state guide, pointing the
way to that footnote on history and plenty more.
Timed to coincide with the
150th anniversary of the war,
the guide is aimed at helping
states cash in on the growing
popularity of cultural heritage tourism and to get those
tourists beyond such welltrod battlefields as Gettys-

burg, Pa., and Antietam, Md.
“Our story here is that
there are a lot of jewels in
Appalachia, and a lot of great
stories about families and
communities that we should
stop and take a look at,“ said
the co-chair of the federal
agency, Earl F. Gohl.
The map and guide were
released at Independence
Hall in Wheeling, where
some Virginians were so horrified by talk of secession
when the war erupted in 1861
that they held their own constitutional convention and
formed the breakaway state
of West Virginia two years
later.
Boyd, who once boasted in

a letter to a cousin of her 106pound “beautiful” form, supplied Union secrets to Stonewall Jackson, who made her
a captain and honorary aidede-camp.
She was arrested and
imprisoned twice, then
released while suffering from
typhoid. The Confederacy
sent her to England as a courier, but she was captured
before she could complete
the mission. Historians say
she eventually married a
Union naval officer and lived
in England until 1866.
Boyd published a memoir
and worked as an actress,
See Guide, Page D3.

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North

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Continued from Page D1.
Old South. The Sons of the
Union Veterans of the Civil
War has 6,000 members.
Kevin Tucker, Massachusetts Department Commander for the Sons of the
Union Veterans, said some
Northern descendants don’t
even know they’re related
to Union veterans. “I found
out after my father did some
research and discovered that
my great-great-grandfather
had collected a Union pension,” said Tucker, of Wakefield. “Until then, I had no
idea.”
Mark Simpson, 57, South
Carolina’s Sons of Confederate Veterans commander,
said his family knew for
generations about his greatgreat-grandfather’s service
in the Confederacy.
“I visit his gravesite every
year and put a flag down,”
Simpson said. “He is real to

then became a lecturer.
She died in Wisconsin in
1900, on a tour touting her
adventures.
Her story is one of many
that are often missed, says
Gohl. The new guide hopes
to draw back the curtain on
her house and other locales.
Those include Mississippi’s Corinth Contraband
Camp, where slaves fleeing
Southern plantations sought
refuge with federal troops.
Union Gen. Grenville Dodge
took them on as teamsters,
cooks, laborers and eventually, security officers. That
led to the creation of the 1st
Alabama Infantry Regiment
of African Descent.
Then, Gohl says, there is
Altoona, Pa., where President Abraham Lincoln convened the states’ governors
and consulted on the Emancipation Proclamation.
The guide will be a free
insert in the spring issue of
American Heritage magazine, and copies have been
distributed to tourism agencies in West Virginia and the
11 other Appalachian states
— Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi,
New York, North Carolina,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina and Tennessee.
Edwin Grosvenor, editor
in chief of American Heritage, said the map has more
information and more stories
than many magazines, and
those stories help make the
Civil War relevant to new
generations. Many schools
have stopped teaching about
the conflict, and over the past
few decades, he said, visits
to even famous destinations
such as Gettysburg have
dropped some.
“People really are forget-

ting about the Civil War,”
Grosvenor said. “The sacrifices the people made —
the women, the children,
the elderly — they’re really
extraordinary ... It was so
cataclysmic and affected so
many people, and it’s important to remember that.”
Although there is enough
Civil War history to fill a
library, Gohl said relatively
little focuses on the lives
and lifestyles of noncombatants between 1861 and
1865. The commission and
the states opted to focus on
farms and factories, railroads
and restored houses, even
a sprawling cave where soldiers hid out for three years.
“There’s another story here
— how people lived, how culture developed,” Gohl said.
Kentucky’s Mountain Life
Museum in London features
seven pioneer settlement
buildings filled with relics
from that agricultural era.
At the Gordon-Roberts
House in Cumberland, Md.,
visitors can learn from Priscilla McKaig’s journals about
her son’s enlistment in the
Confederate army.
In Ripley, Ohio, tourists
can see where ardent antislavery activist John Rankin
— a Presbyterian minister — sheltered 2,000 slaves
escaping to freedom via the
Underground Railroad.
And in South Carolina,
they can learn how James
Clement Furman opened his
Greenville college to women
when the men went off to
war. They paid their tuition
with bacon, sugar and lard.
This is the third tourism
map the ARC has created,
with others focused on thematic driving tours.

me.”
Mintz said the North has
another factor affecting its
Civil War memory: immigration from Italy and Eastern
Europe at the turn of the
20th century. He said those
populations, and more recent
immigrants, sometimes
struggle to identify with that
war compared to more contemporary ones.
Then, Mintz said, after the
Civil War a number of Northerners moved West — and to
the South.
History buffs with the
Framingham History Center,
located in a town where residents say “The Battle Hymn
of the Republic” was first
sung, said they are using
the sesquicentennial to
bring attention to long-forgotten local Civil War sites
and personalities. Included
is a celebration at Harmony
Grove, site of many anti-slavery rallies where abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
famously burned a copy of
the U.S. Constitution and

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called it a “pact with the
Devil.”
Today, only a small plaque
in front of a house announces
the historic site now surrounded by industrial lots,
train tracks and a motorcycle
shop.
Volunteers also hope to
raise around $1 million for
Framingham’s dilapidated
Civil War memorial building to repair its cracked
walls and leaky ceiling. The
building houses a memorial
honoring Framingham soldiers killed in the war and an
American flag that flew over
the Battles of Gettysburg and
Antietam. (Murphy said the
flag was discovered in the
1990s after being forgotten in
a case for 90 years.)
Fred Wallace, the town’s
historian, said that more
importantly, volunteers
wanted to bring attention
to Gen. George H. Gordon,
a long-forgotten Union hero
from Framingham who was a
prolific writer and organizer
of the 2nd Massachusetts

Volunteer Infantry.
“I don’t understand how
this man was lost to history,”
said Wallace, who is writing
a biography on him.
During a recent afternoon,
Murphy took a reporter
and photographer to Gordon’s gravesite, which she
said would be included in a
planned walking tour. But
Murphy couldn’t locate the
site and a cemetery official
needed to comb through
maps to find it.
Murphy said putting
together the pieces of Gordon’s life is part of the fun.
“When I was told that I
lived in what used to be
a barn of Gen. Gordon’s
horse,” 81-year-old Ellen
Shaw said, “I was like ... General who?”
Since then Shaw has joined
history buffs in searching for
what they believe is a marker
announcing the gravesite of
Ashby, Gordon’s horse.
“I hope I find it one day
when I’m just walking
around outside,” Shaw said.